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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Lot 298 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Am Strande (Au bord de la mer, or Woman by the Sea)

Closed8 February 2012

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GBP 157,250

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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Am Strande (Au bord de la mer, or Woman by the Sea)
signed 'KANDINSKY' (lower left); inscribed and numbered 'N38...Tempera' (on the reverse)
gouache on beige cardboard
12 7/8 x 12 7/8 in. (32.7 x 32.7 cm.)
Executed in early 1904

Private collection, by whom acquired in 1904.
(probably) Vladimir & Henriette Hirschmann, Moscow & Paris.
Yakov Evseevich Rubenstein, Moscow, by 1966.
Anonymous sale, Bonham's, London, 24 November 2008, lot 35.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

Vivian Endicott Barnett will include this work in her forthcoming Addendum to the Kandinsky Watercolours Catalogue raisonné.