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WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944) Kreis und rechteck (Circle and Rectangle) 20 11/16 x 12 1/2 in (52.5 x 31.7 cm) (sheet size)25 3/8 x 17 15/16 in (64.5 x 45.5 cm) (mount size) (Executed in August 1932) image 1
WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944) Kreis und rechteck (Circle and Rectangle) 20 11/16 x 12 1/2 in (52.5 x 31.7 cm) (sheet size)25 3/8 x 17 15/16 in (64.5 x 45.5 cm) (mount size) (Executed in August 1932) image 2
Lot 16

WASSILY KANDINSKY
(1866-1944)
Kreis und rechteck (Circle and Rectangle)

15 May 2025, 12:00 EDT
New York

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WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

Kreis und rechteck (Circle and Rectangle)
signed with the artist's monogram and dated '32' (lower left); dated again and inscribed 'No. 485 / 1932 "Circle and Square" "Kreis und Rechteck" Cercle et Rectangle' (on the reverse of the artist's mount)
gouache and watercolor on paper laid down on the artist's mount
20 11/16 x 12 1/2 in (52.5 x 31.7 cm) (sheet size)
25 3/8 x 17 15/16 in (64.5 x 45.5 cm) (mount size)

Executed in August 1932

Footnotes

Provenance
Galka E. Scheyer Collection, Los Angeles, from 1933 until 1945.
Nina Kandinsky Collection, Paris (the artist's wife; by the late 1940s).
Galerie Maeght, Paris, by 1972; their sale, Guy Loudmer, Paris, October 27, 1982, lot 29.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 6, 2015, lot 400.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

Exhibited
Oakland, The Oakland Art Gallery, Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, the 'Old Master' of Abstract Art, 1935.
Seattle, Cornish School, Series of 'The Blue Four' watercolors, February 1939.
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky: A Survey 1923 to Present, July 6-23, 1939.
Los Angeles, Stendahl Art Galleries, Kandinsky, April 1-20, 1940.
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum, Klee - Kandinsky, October 30 - January 9, 1972, no. 63.
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Wassily Kandinsky retrospective, January 29 - March 12, 1972, no. 68.
Zurich, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky: Ölbilder, Gouachen, Zeichnunge, 1972, no. 39.
Madrid, Fondación Juan March, Kandinsky 1923-1944, October 10 - December 3, 1978, no. 52 (later traveled to Seville).
Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery, Wassily Kandinsky, April 10-28, 1989.

Literature
V.E. Barnett, Kandinsky, Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944, New York, 1994, no. 1096 (illustrated p. 340).

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