Live Auction 3784Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Lot 1105 Property from the Collection of Rudolf and Leonore Blum

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

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Closed13 November 2015

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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Ohne Titel
signed with monogram and dated '30' (lower left)
watercolor and brush and pen and India ink on paper laid down on card
8 ¾ x 4 ½ in. (22.3 x 11.2 cm.)
Executed in 1930

Pierre Lundholm, Stockholm.
Galerie Berggruen et Cie., Paris (by 1972).
Saidenberg Gallery, Inc., New York (by 1973).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 1986, lot 136.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 28 November 1995, lot 258.
The Waddington Galleries, Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, July 1999.

Specialist note

According to Vivian Endicott Barnett, this watercolor was painted to accompany one of the first eight copies of the first edition of Will Grohmann's book Kandinsky (Editions Cahier d'Art, Paris, 1930).