Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Braun um Bunt

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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Braun um Bunt
signed with the monogram and dated 'K/27' (lower left); dated and inscribed 'No 239, 1927, "Braun um Bunt"' (on the reverse of the artist's mount)
watercolour, wash, pen and India ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount
image: 18 7/8 x 12 5/8 in. (48.2 x 32 cm.)
mount: 25 x 18¼ in. (63.5 x 46.2 cm.)
Executed in November 1927
Provenance
Nina Kandinsky, Paris.
Galerie Gutbier, Rottach-Egern, by whom acquired from the above circa 1944-1950.
Dr. Helmut Beck, Stuttgart, by whom acquired from the above circa 1944-1950; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 October 2002, lot. 26.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
The Artist's Handlist: 'Watercolours: no. xi 1927, 239, Braun um Bunt'. V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky, Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944, London, 1994, no. 806 (illustrated p. 173).
Exhibited
Berlin, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Oktober-Ausstellung: W. Kandinsky - Neue Aquarelle with Erich Heckel - Zeichnungen aus den letzen Jahren, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, Lithographien, October 1928, no. 15.
Paris, Galerie Zak, Exposition d'aquarelles de Wassily Kandinsky, January 1929, no. 14; this exhibition later travelled to The Hague, Kunstzaal de Bron, March - April 1929; Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, May - June 1929.
Halle, Städtisches Museum Moritzburg, Wassily Kandisnky Retrospektive, October 1929.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Die Maler am Bauhaus, May - June 1950, no. 108.
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, 50 Jahre Bauhaus, May - July 1968, no. 121.
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Neuere Kunst aus württembergischen Privatbesitz: I.Klassische Moderne, April - June 1973, no. 70.
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Klee und Kandinsky: Erinnerungen an eine Künstlerfreundschaft, May - July 1979, no. 86.
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Lot Essay

The present watercolour is related to the oil painting Bunte Figur (Roethel and Benjamin, no. 822; fig. 1), dated 1927.

(fig. 1) Wassily Kandinsky, Bunte Figur, 1927. Private collection; © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London, 2007.

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