LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolor and brush and ink on paper

Size Notes:

9? by 13? in.

Edition:

Executed in early 1916.

Description:

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Markings:

signed with the monogram K and dated 16 (lower left)

Condition:

Executed on buff wove paper. The edges of the sheet are mounted to a windowed supporting sheet, which is secured with picture corners to a backing board. There are artist pinholes in all four corners. One tiny nick on the lower edge of the lower left corner, visible only under very close inspection. Four very minor pindots of foxing in the lower register, visible only under very close inspection. This work is in very good condition. Framed: 19 1/8 by 22 in. (48.6 by 55.9 cm.)

Literature:

Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Drawings Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 2006, no. 11, pp. 37 & 135, pl. 17, illustrated in color

Provenance:

Private Collection, Stockholm Julian Barran, Ltd., London Sotheby's New York, 12 May 1999, lot 346 (consigned by the above) Acquired from the above by the present owner