Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

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

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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.

The artist's handlist ('Coloured drawings, "38, Am Strande"').
W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, New York, 1958, p. 343.
H.K. Roethel, Kandinsky, Das graphische Werk, Cologne, 1970, p. 10.
D.E. Gordon, Modern Art Exhibitions 1900-1916, vol. II, Munich, 1974, pp. 83 & 102.
E. Hanfstaengl, Wassily Kandinsky, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, Katalog der Sammlung in der Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, Munich, 1974, p. 25.
J.D. Fineberg, Kandinsky in Paris 1906-1907, Ann Arbor, 1984, pp. 53, 78 & 123.
V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, 1900-1921, London, 1992, no. 110, p. 123 (not illustrated).

(probably) St. Petersburg, New Association of Painters, January 1904, no. 54.
Paris, Petit Palais, Salon d'Automne, 2ème exposition, November 1904, no. 1509.
Tallin, Fine Art Museum, Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of Ya. E. Rubenstein, 1966; this exhibition later travelled to Alma-Alta, T.G. Shevchenko Kazak State Art Gallery and Lviv, National Art Gallery.

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

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