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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE MONACO COLLECTION
Lot 1

Wassily Kandinsky
(Russian/French, 1866-1944)
Ohne Titel

2 March 2017, 17:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Ohne Titel
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'K/39' (lower left)
pen and ink and pencil on paper
21.5 x 16cm (8 7/16 x 6 5/16in).
Executed in 1939

Footnotes

Provenance
Nina Kandinsky Collection, Paris (the artist's wife).
Max Bill Collection, Zurich.
Anon. sale, Finarte, Milan, 7 - 8 November 1972, lot 77.
Galleria Schwarz, Milan, no. 5188.
Amici Centro Arte Annunciata, Milan, no. 619.
Private collection, Monaco.

Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Dina Vierny, Kandinsky: dessins 1886 - 1944, 16 May - 16 June 1968, no. 43.

Literature
M. Bill (ed.), Kandinsky, Essays über Kunst und Künstler, Zurich, 1955, no. 7 (illustrated p. 212).
W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, London, 1959, no. 7 (illustrated p. 250).
V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Drawings. Catalogue Raisonné, Individual Drawings, Vol. I, Munich, 2006, no. 1055 (illustrated p. 485).

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