Wassily Kandinsky
Moscow 1866 – 1944 Neuilly
”Ohne Titel”. 1928
Watercolour and pen and black ink on light cardboard. 12,3 × 9 cm (16,8 × 11,9 cm). (4 ⅞ × 3 ½ in. (6 ⅝ × 4 ⅝ in.)) Monogrammed and dated lower left: K 28. Below the image, to the right, inscribed in pen in black: Meinem lieben Otto Ralfs / herzlichsten Glückwunsch / Kandinsky / I IV 28. On the reverse the stamp in red Lugt 5502. Catalogue raisonné: Barnett 835. [3084] Frame: Spain, circa 1720
ProvenanceOtto Ralfs, Braunschweig (birthday present of the artist, 1.4.1928 until approx. 1940) / Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Warsaw (approx. 1965-1983) / Private Collection, USA / Maren Otto, Hamburg (acquired in 1988 at Galerie Thomas, Munich)
EUR 100.000 – 150.000
USD 97,000 – 146,000
Sold for:
387,500 EUR (incl. premium)
ExhibitionCatalogue 41: en miniature. Ausgewählte Kleinformate des 20. Jahrhunderts. Munich, Galerie Thomas, 1988/89, ill. on the dust jacket
Literature and IllustrationAuction catalogue: Impressionist and Modern Drawings and Watercolours. London, Sotheby’s, 5.12.1984, cat. no. 364, ill. / Dorota Folga-Januszewska: Klee i Kandinsky: Dwie Koncepcje przestrzeni. In: Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie 30 (1986), p. 189-214, here p. 201, ill. p. 204
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