Lot Essay
Vivian Endicott Barnett will include this watercolor in her forthcoming second volume of her Kandinsky catalogue raisonné of gouaches and watercolors as no. 938 (illustrated in color, p. 204).
Details
WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Variierte Rechtecke
signed with monogram and dated bottom left K29--signed with monogram and dated again, titled and numbered on the reverse K 1929 "Variierte Rechtecke" No. 347--watercolor and India ink on paper laid down by the artist on board
15 5/8 x 15 1/8 in. (39.7 x 38.3 cm.)
Painted April, 1929
Variierte Rechtecke
signed with monogram and dated bottom left K29--signed with monogram and dated again, titled and numbered on the reverse K 1929 "Variierte Rechtecke" No. 347--watercolor and India ink on paper laid down by the artist on board
15 5/8 x 15 1/8 in. (39.7 x 38.3 cm.)
Painted April, 1929
Provenance
J.B. Neumann, New York (Sept. 23, 1936)
Nierendorf Gallery, New York (acquired by the present owner in 1945)
Nierendorf Gallery, New York (acquired by the present owner in 1945)
Literature
The artist's handist of watercolors as iv 1929, 347, Variierte Rechtecke
Exhibited
New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Kandinsky, a Retrospective View, 1937, no. 25