Dunkle Seiten

细节

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Dunkle Seiten
signed with the monogram and dated 'K/31' (lower left)
watercolour and pen and India ink on paper
13¼ x 19¼ in. (33.5 x 48.8 cm.)
Executed in 1931

来源

Rudolf Probst, Mannheim, by 1949.
Private collection, Germany, until 1971.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1971.
Galleria de' Foscherari, Bologna.
Anonymous sale, Finarte, Milan, 15 March 1973, lot 54.
Anonymous sale, Finarte, Milan, 22 June 1999, lot 147.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

出版

The Artist's Handlist: 'Watercolours, no. vii 1931, 426, Dunkle Seiten'.
V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky, Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944, London, 1994, no. 1036 (illustrated p. 308).

展览

Berlin, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Sonder-Ausstellung W. Kandinsky: Zeichnungen 1910-1931, Neue Aquarelle, Grafik, February 1932, no. 69; this exhibition later travelled to Saarbrücken, Staatliches Museum, June 1932.
Stockholm, Gummesons Konsthall, Kandinsky, September 1932, no. 39.

注意事项

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拍品专文

Ordered and precise, with sharp, distinct shapes, Dunkle Seiten embodies the geometrical form of abstraction that Kandinsky practiced throughout his professorship at the Bauhaus, where his approach to art became increasingly more technical and scientific. Watercolours assumed an important and independent role in his work during the Bauhaus period and Dunkle Seiten represents the detailed system of symbolization Kandinsky formulated to stimulate emotional reactions and externally express inner feelings. The work explores the dynamics of vertical form, holding Kandinsky's geometric hieroglyphs into a steady balance of rectangular bands, like a form of musical notation. Dominated by the dark pigments the artist associated with obscurity and death, Dunkle Seiten deliberately evokes a deep sense of mystery, illustrating Kandinsky's enigmatic personal and spiritual interpretation of abstract art.

(fig. 1) Hugo Erfurt. Portrait of Kandinsky, Dresden, 1933, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.