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Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection

Wassily Kandinsky

Zu Einem Punkt (Towards One Point)

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Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Bid

180,000 USD

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Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection

Wassily Kandinsky 

1866 - 1944


Zu Einem Punkt (Towards One Point)

signed with the artist’s monogram and dated 28 (lower left)

watercolor and pen and ink on paper 

19 ⅛ by 12 ⅝ in.

48.6 by 32.1 cm.

Executed in May 1928.

Rudolf Probst, Mannheim

James Wise, Geneva (acquired by 1962)

Saidenberg Gallery, New York (acquired by 1962 and until 1971)

Byron Gallery, New York (acquired in 1971)

Acquired by 1977 by the present owner

Berlin, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Katalog der Oktober-Ausstellung, 1928, no. 29

Paris, Galerie Zak, Exposition d’aquarelles de Wassily Kandinsky, 1929, no. 25

Halle, Roter Turm, Hallescher Kunstverein and Städtisches Museum Moritzburg, 1929

Kunsthaus Zürich, Novemberausstellung, 1931, no. 66

The artist’s handlist, no. 263

Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Two 1922-1944, Ithaca, 1994, no. 851, p. 210, illustrated