The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection
Wassily Kandinsky
Ins violett (Into Violet)
Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 USD
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The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection
Wassily Kandinsky
(1866 - 1944)
Ins violett (Into Violet)
signed with artist’s monogram and dated 25 (lower left); dedicated Der verehrten Frau E. Reichelt herzlichst Kandinsky (on the artist's mount); titled Violett, dated 1925 and numbered No 188 (on the reverse of the artist's mount)
watercolor and pen and ink on paper on the artist's mount
image: 13 ¾ by 8 ¾ in. 35 by 22.2 cm.
mount: 19 ⅜ by 13 ⅝ in. 49.3 by 34.5 cm.
Executed in January 1925.
Elfriede Reichelt, Breslau (acquired directly from the artist in exchange for photographs in April 1926)
Galerie Jacques Benador, Geneva (acquired by 1956)
Heinz Berggruen, Paris (acquired by 1956)
Hanover Gallery, London (acquired in 1956 and until 1958)
Heinz Berggruen, Paris (acquired by 1958)
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bensinger, Chicago (acquired by 1959)
Linda Olin, Chicago (until 1982)
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above on 10 November 1982 by the present owner
Dresden, Graphisches Kabinett Hugo Erfurth and Erfurt, Angermuseum, Kunstverein, Sieben Bauhausmeister, 1925
Paris, Berggruen & Cie., Klee et Kandinsky: une confrontation, 1959, n.p., illustrated (titled Violett)
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Collected by Yale Alumni, 1960, no. 199, p. 192, illustrated (titled Violet)
The artist’s handlist, I, no. 188
John Prossor, “An Introduction to Abstract Painting,” Apollo, vol. LXVI, no. 392, October 1957, fig. II, p. 76, illustrated (titled Violett)
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Ithaca, 1994, no. 750, p. 145, illustrated
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