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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Ohne Titel
signed with the monogram and dated '38' (lower left)
pen and ink on paper
12 1/2 x 10 5/8 in. (32 x 26.9 cm.)
Drawn in 1938
Ohne Titel
signed with the monogram and dated '38' (lower left)
pen and ink on paper
12 1/2 x 10 5/8 in. (32 x 26.9 cm.)
Drawn in 1938
Provenance
Nina Kandinsky, Paris, by descent from the artist.
Karl Ströher, Darmstadt, by whom acquired from the above in 1956, and thence by descent to the late owner.
Karl Ströher, Darmstadt, by whom acquired from the above in 1956, and thence by descent to the late owner.
Literature
The artist's handlist of drawings, 1938, no. 2.
M. Bill, Kandinsky: Essays über Kunst und Künstler, Zurich, 1955, p. 185 (illustrated).
E. Pohl, G. Pohl, U. Ströher & J.-K. Schmidt, Karl Ströher: Sammler und Sammlung, Ferpicloz, 1982, no. 268, p. 289.
V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Drawings: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Individual Drawings, Munich, 2006, no. 1024, p. 473 (illustrated).
M. Bill, Kandinsky: Essays über Kunst und Künstler, Zurich, 1955, p. 185 (illustrated).
E. Pohl, G. Pohl, U. Ströher & J.-K. Schmidt, Karl Ströher: Sammler und Sammlung, Ferpicloz, 1982, no. 268, p. 289.
V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Drawings: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Individual Drawings, Munich, 2006, no. 1024, p. 473 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Cologne, Kulturkreis im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie, Deutsche Aquarelle und Zeichnungen seit 1900, July 1959, no. 38, p. 30.
Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Die Sammlung Karl Ströher: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November 1956 - January 1966, no. 58, p. 67 (illustrated p. 74).
Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Die Sammlung Karl Ströher: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November 1956 - January 1966, no. 58, p. 67 (illustrated p. 74).
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