Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Untitled (Dessin 8)

Details

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Untitled (Dessin 8)
signed with monogram and dated 'K16' (lower left); inscribed 'Haut! No. 8' (on the reverse)
pen and India ink on tan paper
11¾ x 9¼ in. (32.4 x 23.5 cm.)
Drawn by 1930 according to Vivian Endicott Barnett.

Provenance

(probably) E. Weyhe Gallery, New York (1930s).
FAR Gallery, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wolf, Philadelphia (1962).
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Literature

W. Grohmann, Kandinsky, Paris, 1930, p. xxi (illustrated).
Cahiers d'Art, 1933, nos. 1-2 (illustrated in advertisement for Grohmann's 1930 monograph).

Exhibited

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects 20th Century, October-November 1962, p. 20.

Lot Essay

This drawing will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Kandinsky drawings by Vivian Endicott Barnett.

According to Barnett, Kandinsky drew this work by 1930, and signed it by 1933. The drawing was likely pre-dated, as it does not resemble the artist's works from 1916. Barnett also notes that several other works illustrated in the 1930 Grohmann monograph were also pre-dated by the artist.

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