Bleu plongé
Details
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Bleu plongé
signed with the monogram and dated '34' (lower left); inscribed 'No 546 1934-"Bleu plongé"' (on the reverse of the artist's mount)
watercolour on paper laid down on the artist's mount
13¾ x 8 5/8 in. (35 x 22.5 cm.)
Executed in 1934
Bleu plongé
signed with the monogram and dated '34' (lower left); inscribed 'No 546 1934-"Bleu plongé"' (on the reverse of the artist's mount)
watercolour on paper laid down on the artist's mount
13¾ x 8 5/8 in. (35 x 22.5 cm.)
Executed in 1934
Provenance
Nina Kandinsky.
Karl Gutbrod, a gift from the above, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Karl Gutbrod, a gift from the above, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
The Artist's Handlist, no. '1934, 546, Bleu plongé'.
V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944, London, 1994, no. 1173 (illustrated p. 392).
V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944, London, 1994, no. 1173 (illustrated p. 392).
Exhibited
Bern, Kunsthalle, Wassily Kandinsky, February - March 1937, no. 82.
Paris, Galerie l'Esquisse, Etapes de l'oeuvre de Wassily Kandinsky, November - December 1944.
Lucerne, Galerie Rosengart, Kandinsky Exhibition: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings, June - September 1953, no. 18.
Lugano, Museo d'arte, Kandinsky nelle collezioni Svizzere, June - October 1995, no. 64 (illustrated p. 229).
Paris, Galerie l'Esquisse, Etapes de l'oeuvre de Wassily Kandinsky, November - December 1944.
Lucerne, Galerie Rosengart, Kandinsky Exhibition: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings, June - September 1953, no. 18.
Lugano, Museo d'arte, Kandinsky nelle collezioni Svizzere, June - October 1995, no. 64 (illustrated p. 229).
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