Lot 1
Entwurf zu Komposition IV
Sold
$889,000
Est $500,000 - $700,000
Live Auction
LIVING THE AVANT-GARDE: THE TRITON COLLECTION FOUNDATION, EVENING SALE PART I
ARTIST
Wassily Kandinsky
Size
5 5/8 x 8 3/8 in. (14.2 x 21.2 cm)
Description
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LIVING THE AVANT-GARDE: THE TRITON COLLECTION FOUNDATION

Medium
linocut and watercolor on paper
Signature
Executed in 1911.
Provenance
Reinhard Piper, Munich Private Collection, Germany Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, December 8, 2005, lot 992 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky, eds., Der Blaue Reiter, Munich, 1914, pl. 3, pp. 65, 135 (linocut with pochoir illustrated, p. 65) Ulrike Becks-Malorny, ed., Kandinsky 1866-1944: De weg naar abstractie, Cologne, 1999, p. 64 Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Drawings: Catalogue Raisonné, Volume One, Individual Drawings, London, 2006, no. 5, pp. 35, 130 (illustrated, p. 130) Meer dan kleur. Fauvisme en expressionisme uit de collectie van de Triton Foundation, exh. cat., Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 2009, p. 20 (illustrated)
Exhibited
London, The Tate Gallery, Abstraction: Towards a New Art. Painting 1910-20, February 6–April 13, 1980, no. 166, p. 64 The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Liefde! Kunst! Passie! Kunstenaarsechtparen, February 21–June 1, 2009, p. 59 The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Kandinsky en Der Blaue Reiter, February 6–May 24, 2010, no. 25, pp. 134, 229 (illustrated, p. 134) Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Avant-gardes 1870 to the present: The Collection of the Triton Foundation, October 7, 2012–January 20, 2013, pp. 212-213, 549 (illustrated, pp. 212-213) Amsterdam, Joods Historisch Museum, Schönberg & Kandinsky. Tegendraads in kunst en muziek, November 18, 2013–March 16, 2014, p. 15 (illustrated)