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Wednesday 13 November 2024, 03:30 PM • Rome

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Wassily Kandinsky

(Mosca 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine 1944)

Untitled, 1940

Estimate

€ 20.000 - 30.000

Sold

€ 37.890

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

ink on paper laid on cardboard
27.5 x 17.5 cm
Signed and dated lower left: VK40
On the reverse of the support cardboard a handwritten dedication by Nina Kandinsky: En souvenir de l'exposition de Kandinsky à Madame Estienne signed: N. Kandinsky and dated: 13/III/46 

Provenance

Paris, 1946, gift of Nina Kandinsky to Charles Estienne's wife;
Milan, Ciranna Gallery (label and stamps on the reverse of the closing cardboard)

Exhibition

Bern, Centenary Exhibition of the Kornfeld und Klipstein Auction House , 1964, cat. n. 64 ill.

Literature

V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Drawings, Catalogue raisonné, Vol. I, Individual Drawings, Ed. Wilson, London, 2006, p. 506, n. 1110 ill. b/w