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Pfeil zum Kreis (1930)

 
Lot # 21/a

Painting

Oil/canvas

31 5/8 x 43 1/2 in 80.4 x 110.5 cm

Hammer price: € 2,536,814 $ 2,800,000 ₿ 317.9062 ⧫ 15,185.5807 £ 2,177,294 ¥ 19,629,397 ₪ (ILS) 9,783,710 KR (SEK) 27,181,827 CHF 2,792,321 $ CA 3,701,892 ($ 2,800,000 )
Price including buyer's premium: € 3,057,767 $ 3,375,000 ₿ 383.1905 ⧫ 18,304.0482 £ 2,624,417 ¥ 23,660,434 ₪ (ILS) 11,792,865 KR (SEK) 32,763,809 CHF 3,365,744 $ CA 4,462,102 ($ 3,375,000 )
Estimate: € 3,624,020 $ 4,000,000 ₿ 454.1517 ⧫ 21,693.6868 £ 3,110,420 ¥ 28,041,996 ₪ (ILS) 13,976,729 KR (SEK) 38,831,181 CHF 3,989,030 $ CA 5,288,417 - € 5,436,030 $ 6,000,000 ₿ 681.2276 ⧫ 32,540.5301 £ 4,665,630 ¥ 42,062,994 ₪ (ILS) 20,965,093 KR (SEK) 58,246,772 CHF 5,983,545 $ CA 7,932,626 ($ 4,000,000 - $ 6,000,000 )
Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale
11 nov 2019
New York NY, United States
Details
Monog. d -30 lower left
Notes: Roethel-Benjamin, II, 943
Provenance: Nina Kandinsky, Paris (by descent from the artist). Galerie Maeght, Paris (acquired from the above, circa 1955). Fernand C. Graindorge, Liège (acquired from the above, 12 April 1960 and until at least 1972). Jacques Hachuel, Madrid. Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1992, lot 21. Giuseppe Nahmad, Switzerland (by 2001). Acquired from the above by the late owners, 10 May 2006
Exhibition: Kunsthalle Basel, Gedächtnis-Ausstellung: Wassily Kandinsky, March-April 1945, p. 9, no. 40. Kunsthalle Bern, Wassily Kandinsky, March-May 1955, no. 60. Paris, Galerie Maeght, Derrière le miroir: Kandinsky, Bauhaus de Dessau 1927-1933, 1965, no. 28. Charleroi, Palais des beaux-arts, Wassily Kandinsky: Re´trospective, January-March 1972, no. 33 (titled La flèche vers la croix). Zürich, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky, April 1972, no. 24 (illustrated). Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Rétrospective Vassily Kandinsky, July-October 2001, p. 178, no. 89 (illustrated in color, p. 179).
Illustrated on page 124-125 of the catalog