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Transmission
Details
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Transmission
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'K 35' (lower left)
oil, watercolour and India ink with Spritztechnik on prepared beige paper
20 x 18 7/8 in. (50.8 x 48 cm.)
Executed in May 1935
Transmission
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'K 35' (lower left)
oil, watercolour and India ink with Spritztechnik on prepared beige paper
20 x 18 7/8 in. (50.8 x 48 cm.)
Executed in May 1935
Provenance
Nina Kandinsky, Paris, until 1957.
Galerie Maeght, Paris, by 1957.
Anonymous sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 20-21 May 1965, lot 451.
Kaare Berntsen Galeri, Oslo.
Acquired by the father of the present owner in the late 1960s.
Galerie Maeght, Paris, by 1957.
Anonymous sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 20-21 May 1965, lot 451.
Kaare Berntsen Galeri, Oslo.
Acquired by the father of the present owner in the late 1960s.
Literature
The artist's handlist, watercolours, 'v 1935, 554, Transmission (Encre de Ch. + Aq. + huile.)'.
V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944, New York, 1994, no. 1183 (illustrated p. 409).
V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944, New York, 1994, no. 1183 (illustrated p. 409).
Exhibited
Paris, Cahiers d'art, W. Kandinsky: nouvelles toiles, aquarelles, dessins, June - Septembre 1935.
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