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Im lockeren Schwarz (1927)

 
Lot # 410

Drawing-Watercolor

Watercolour, gouache, pen, India ink/paper

13 1/8 x 9 5/8 in 33.3 x 24.3 cm

Hammer price: € 301,682 $ 315,250 ₿ 15.532 ⧫ 275.4206 £ 260,000 ¥ 2,112,337 ₪ (ILS) 1,082,775 KR (SEK) 3,194,346 CHF 301,617 $ CA 405,612 (£ 260,000 )
Price including buyer's premium: € 380,119 $ 397,215 ₿ 19.5703 ⧫ 347.0299 £ 327,600 ¥ 2,661,545 ₪ (ILS) 1,364,297 KR (SEK) 4,024,876 CHF 380,037 $ CA 511,072 (£ 327,600 )
Estimate: € 208,857 $ 218,250 ₿ 10.7529 ⧫ 190.6758 £ 180,000 ¥ 1,462,387 ₪ (ILS) 749,614 KR (SEK) 2,211,470 CHF 208,812 $ CA 280,809 - € 290,079 $ 303,125 ₿ 14.9346 ⧫ 264.8275 £ 250,000 ¥ 2,031,093 ₪ (ILS) 1,041,130 KR (SEK) 3,071,486 CHF 290,016 $ CA 390,012 (£ 180,000 - £ 250,000 )
Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale
29 jun 2022
London, United Kingdom
Details
Monog. Dated -27 lower left
Notes: Endicott Barnett, II, 803
Provenance: Kandinsky-Gesellschaft, Braunschweig. Richard Doetsch-Benziger, Basel, by whom acquired from the above, by 1956. Private collection, Basel. Private collection, Switzerland, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Exhibition: Berlin, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Oktober-Ausstellung, October 1928, no. 13. Paris, Galerie Zak, Exposition d'Aquarelles de Wassily Kandinsky, January 1929, no. 13; this exhibition later travelled to The Hague, Kunstzaal de Bron, March - April 1929; and Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, May - June 1929. Basel, Kunsthalle, Moderne Deutsche Malerei aus Privatbesitz, October 1933, no. 56, p. 3. Basel, Kunsthalle, Gedächtnisausstellung Wassily Kandinsky, March - April 1945, no. 9, p. 7 (titled 'In lockerem Schwarz'). Basel, Kunstmuseum, Sammlung Richard Doetsch-Benziger. Malerei, Zeichnung und Plastik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, June - July 1956, no. 125, p. 37 (illustrated). Lugano, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Kandinsky nelle collezioni svizzere, June - October 1995, no. 38, p. 195 (illustrated). Lugano, Museo d'Arte, Jean Arp - Osvaldo Licini, April - July 2014, no. 35, p. 278 (illustrated p. 145). Bern, Paul Klee Zentrum, Klee & Kandinsky, Nachbarn, Freunde, Konkurrenten, June - September 2015, no. 137, p. 348 (illustrated p. 196); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau München, October 2015 - January 2016.