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MARCH 2024 DECORATIVE & FINE ART SALE
Lot 63:
A watercolor and gouache with pen and ink on paper abstract drawing. Signed and dated by the author lower left "V.K. 1923".
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian and French artist and theorist, one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. After successful avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential Munich group Der Blaue Reiter – The Blue Rider, 1911–14, and began completely abstract painting. Taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933.
Provenance: According to the current owner the painting was brought form the Soviet Union to Germany where the work was purchased by the ownde in the 1970’s.
L: 7.5 in. (19.05 cm.); W: 11.25 in. (28.58 cm.)
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