Wassily Kandinsky
Title: Bild Mit Weissen Linien (painting With White Lines)
Lot 53 at the auction
Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, immediately following Actual Size: A Curated Evening Sale
in London
on June 21, 2017.
Lot 53 at the auction Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, immediately following Actual Size: A Curated Evening Sale in London on June 21, 2017.
(High-Res Derivative Image)
($42,251,200*0.00001 = $422.51) Estimate: 0-0 GBP
Sold for 33,008,750 GBP
Price Point Value $42,251,200 USD Auctioned on Jun 21 2017
Description & Provenance & Exhibitions & Literature
oil on canvas
119.5 by 110cm.
47 by 43 1/4 in.
Painted in October 1913.
Provenance
Museum Penza, Penza (allocated by the above in 1920)
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Wilhelm Hack, Cologne (acquired from the above in 1974)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Exhibited
Odessa, Museum of the Society of Fine Arts, Spring Exhibition of Paintings, April 1914
Moscow, The Year 1915, April 1915, no. 42
Verona, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Forti, Da Van Gogh a Schiele: L’Europa espressionista 1880-1918, 1989, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Verona, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Forti, Vasilij Kandiskij, 1993, no. 22, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Literature
Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work, London, 1959, no. 178, listed p. 333
Der Spiegel, no. 36, 1974, illustrated p. 123
Erika Hanfstaengl, Wassily Kandinsky, Zeichungen und Aquarelle im Lenbachhaus München, Munich, 1974, mentioned p. 175
Donald E. Gordon, Modern Art Exhibitions 1900-1916, Munich, 1974, vol. II, listed no. 68, p. 781 & no. 42, p. 870
Hans K. Roethel & Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, London, 1982, vol. I, no. 470, illustrated p. 467
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours. Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1992, vol. I, mentioned pp. 314-315
Vivian Endicott Barnett & Helmut Friedel, Vasily Kandinsky: A Colorful Life, New York, 1996, mentioned pp. 367 & 642
Valery Turchin, Kandinsky in Russia, Moscow, 2005, listed p. 437
Kandinsky. The Path to Abstraction (exhibition catalogue), Tate Modern, London, 2006, illustrated in colour p. 37
