Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Ohne Titel

Details

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Ohne Titel
signed with the artist's monogram and dated '1913' (lower left)
pen and India ink on paper
7 x 9 in. (17.3 x 22.8 cm.)
Drawn in 1913

Provenance

Nina Kandinsky, Paris.
Galerie Editions Karl Flinker, Paris.
Collection of Dr Sylvain Blondin.
Estate of Sibylle Lacan, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Artcurial, Paris, 5 June 2014, lot 153.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

W. Grohmann, L'art de Kandinsky et Catalogue des dessins, in 'Sélection' no. XIV, Paris, July 1933, p. 30.
V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky, Drawings, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Individual Drawings, Munich, 2006, no. 291, p. 158 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

Vivian Endicott Barnet has noted that this drawing is known from a photograph which Nina Kandinsky inscribed 'Dessin N3-1913 Col. N.K. Paris' and from notes Hans Roethel made when he saw the work in Paris in the early 1970s. The motif relates to Improvisations 33 and especially 34 (Roethel & Benjamin, nos. 461, 469).

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