Lot Essay
According to Nina Kandinsky, the present work is a study for the embroidery on a dress which was designed for her by Nadezhda Petrovna Lamanova.
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Details
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
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gouache, watercolor, pen and black ink on paper
8 x 11¼ in. (20.3 x 28.3 cm.)
Painted in 1920-1921
Ohne Titel
gouache, watercolor, pen and black ink on paper
8 x 11¼ in. (20.3 x 28.3 cm.)
Painted in 1920-1921
Provenance
Olga Platonova Krilova, Moscow.
George Costakis, Moscow and Athens.
Galerie Thomas, Munich.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 1 July 1999, lot 895.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
George Costakis, Moscow and Athens.
Galerie Thomas, Munich.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 1 July 1999, lot 895.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
V.E. Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, 1900-1921, London, 1992, vol. I, p. 471, no. 534 (illustrated).
J. Hahl-Koch, Kandinsky, Stuttgart, 1993, p. 256, no. 307 (illustrated in color).
J. Hahl-Koch, Kandinsky, Stuttgart, 1993, p. 256, no. 307 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Atlanta, High Museum of Art; Zurich, Kunsthaus, and Berlin, Museum für Gestaltung, Bauhaus-Archiv, Kandinsky: Russian and Bauhaus Years 1915-1933, December 1983-September 1984, p. 119, no. 43 (illustrated).