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Wassily Kandinsky
Lot 294

Wassily Kandinsky

Dritte Jahresgabe für die Kandinsky-Gesellschaft (R. 191)

Closed19 September 2007

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Wassily Kandinsky
Dritte Jahresgabe für die Kandinsky-Gesellschaft (R. 191)
drypoint, 1928, on wove paper, signed and dated in pencil, dedicated Herrn Dr. H. Stinnes mit herzlichstem Weihnachtsgruss, a good impression of this very rare print, one from the edition of ten impressions only, printed exclusively for and each dedicated individually to the members of the Kandinsky-Gesellschaft, the full sheet, a deckle edge at right, the upper left sheet corner torn and re-attached, some scattered foxing, remains of old adhesive and thin spots in the corners verso, with associated light discolouration visible recto
P. 140 x 182 mm., S. 260 x 325 mm.

Dr. H. Stinnes (L. 1376a)

Specialist note

The Kandinsky-Gesellschaft was founded in 1925 by the Kandinsky-admirer and patron Otto Ralfs, Braunschweig. Between 1925 and 1931 Kandinsky created five prints for the members of the Society. Each of these five prints was published in an edition of ten impressions only. Although all archival material relating to the Society has been destroyed during the war, we know of nine members only and it is likely that there were no other members. The tenth impression was probably intended as a reference copy for the artist himself. The present and the following lot are the personal copies of Dr. Heinrich Stinnes, certainly the most prominent member of the Kandinsky-Gesellschaft one of the most avid and yet discerning collectors of modern prints of his time. (cf. Hans Konrad Roethel, Kandinsky - Das graphische Werk, Cologne, 1970, p. 455, note 18.)