Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection
Wassily Kandinsky
Kühl Im Warm (Cool in Warm)
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250,000 - 350,000 USD
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150,000 USD
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Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection
Wassily Kandinsky
1866 - 1944
Kühl Im Warm (Cool in Warm)
signed with the artist’s monogram and dated 28 (lower left)
watercolor, Spritztechnik, pen and ink and brush and ink on paper
22 ⅛ by 15 ⅛ in.
56.2 by 38.4 cm.
Executed in July 1928.
Heinrich Kirchhoff, Wiesbaden (acquired directly from the artist in 1928 and until at least 1930)
Dombrowski Collection, Florence
Pinacotheca Gallery (Rose Fried), New York (acquired by 1958)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Stephen Hahn, Inc., New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above circa 1982 by the present owner
Berlin, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Katalog der Oktober-Ausstellung, 1928, no. 52
Paris, Galerie Zak, Exposition d’aquarelles de Wassily Kandinsky, 1929, no. 45
Wiesbaden, Neues Museum, Nassauischer Kunstverein, 30 Deutsche Künstler aus unserer Zeit, Sammlung Kirchhoff, 1930, no. 39
Rome, Galleria La Medusa, Baumeister, Bissier, Kandinsky, Klee, 1962, n.n.
The artist’s handlist, no. 298
Christian Zervos, ed., Cahiers d’Art, vol. III, Paris, 1928, no. 10, p. 452, illustrated
Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work, New York, 1958, no. 721, pp. 347 and 409, illustrated (titled Untitled)
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky, Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné 1922-1944, vol. II, Ithaca, 1994, no. 888, p. 229, illustrated
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