Lot Essay
According to Nina Kandinsky, the artist's wife, this is a study by her husband for embroidery for a dress which was designed for her by Lamanova.
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Details
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
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signed and inscribed in cyrillic and numbered '31' (lower left)
gouache, watercolour, pen and black ink on paper
8 x 11in. (20.3 x 28.3cm.)
Executed circa 1920
Untitled
signed and inscribed in cyrillic and numbered '31' (lower left)
gouache, watercolour, pen and black ink on paper
8 x 11in. (20.3 x 28.3cm.)
Executed circa 1920
Provenance
Olga Platonova Krilova, Moscow.
George Costakis, Moscow and Athens.
George Costakis, Moscow and Athens.
Literature
V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonn, Volume One, 1900-1921, London 1992, no. 534 (illustrated p. 471)
J. Hahl-Koch, Kandinsky, London 1993, no. 307 (illustrated p.256)
J. Hahl-Koch, Kandinsky, London 1993, no. 307 (illustrated p.256)
Exhibited
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Zurich, Kunsthaus and Berlin, Museum fr Gestaltung, Bauhaus-Archiv, Kandinsky: Russian and Bauhaus Years 1915-1933, December 1983-February 1984, no. 43 (illustrated).