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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 6, 2024 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 8 | $****** - ****** | Friedlich |
paintings
47.5 x 33 cm (18.7 x 12.99 in)
Watercolor and ink pen, On smooth off-white wove paper, mounted on a backing cardboard, the full sheet
Monogrammed and dated lower left. The backing board is inscribed with a personal dedication: “Meinem alten, lieben Freund / Paul Klee / zu XII 31 / Herzlichst / Kandinsky”. Dated, titled, and numbered “No. 394” on the reverse of the backing board, and inscribed “Frau Paul Klee” by a hand other than that of the artist
Paul Klee Collection (1879-1940), Bern (obtained as a birthday present from the artist on 18 December 1931). Lily Klee Collection (1876-1946), Bern (inherited from the above in 1940). Klee Society, Bern (from the above until 1952). Felix Klee, Bern (1953-1980). Galerie Thomas, Munich (acquired from the above in 1980). Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1982).
• From February 15 to May 18, 2025, the Barberini Museum in Potsdam presents the comprehensive exhibition “Kosmos Kandinsky. Geometrische Abstraktion im 20. Jahrhundert” . Memorial exhibition of Wassily Kandinsky, Kunsthalle Basel, March 10-April 8, 1945, cat. no. 13. Aus der Sammlung Felix Klee. Paul Klee, Kandinsky, Jawlensky, Marc, Feininger u. a., Kunstmuseum Bern, May 26 - August 28, 1966, cat. no. 225. 50 Jahre Bauhaus, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, May 5 - July 28, 1968, cat. no. 128. Kandinsky. Kleine Freuden: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, March 7 - May 10, 1992, cat. no. 129 (illustrated) Klee & Kandinsky. Nachbarn, Freunde, Konkurrenten, Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern, June 19 - September 27, 2015; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, October 21, 2015 - January 24, 2016, cat. no. 159 (illustrated in color).
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky. Catalogue Raisonné of Watercolors, vol. II (1922-1944), Munich 1994, no. 987 (illustrated in b/w and in color, plate 258). Called up: December 6, 2024 - ca. 17.14 h +/- 20 min.
Wassily Kandinsky
Friedlich
1930.
Watercolor and ink pen.
Monogrammed and dated lower left. The backing board is inscribed with a personal dedication: “Meinem alten, lieben Freund / Paul Klee / zu XII 31 / Herzlichst / Kandinsky”. Dated, titled, and numbered “No. 394” on the reverse of the backing board, and inscribed “Frau Paul Klee” by a hand other than that of the artist. On smooth off-white wove paper, mounted on a backing cardboard. 47.5 x 33 cm (18.7 x 12.9 in), the full sheet.
The work is mentioned as “ix 1930, 394,
Friedlich
” on the artist"s handwritten inventory list as part of the watercolors for September 1930. [CH].
• Testimony to an intense artist friendship: Kandinsky provided the watercolor with a dedication to his long-time friend Paul Klee and gave it to him as a birthday present in December 1931.
• At the time the work was created, both artists taught at the Bauhaus in Dessau and shared one of the master houses.
• The strictly geometrical compositions from the Bauhaus years are the artist"s most sought-after works on paper on the international auction market.
• The balanced construction between movement and static makes this work a wonderful example of the art theories that Kandinsky expressed in “Point and Line to Plane” (1926).
• His watercolors and gouaches from the 1930s form part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris
