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Artist |
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Wassily Kandinsky |
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Title |
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Krass und mild (Dramatic and mild)
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Medium |
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oil on canvas |
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Size |
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39.6 x 47.4 in. / 100.5 x 120.5 cm. |
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Year |
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1932 - |
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Description |
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Painted in 1932.
Signed with the monogram and dated 32 (lower left); signed with the monogram, inscribed with the number 578 and dated 1932 on the reverse
Oil on canvas |
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Misc. |
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Signed |
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Sale Of |
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Sotheby's New York: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
[Lot 24]
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
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Estimate |
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*
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Sold For |
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*
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Provenance |
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Valentine Dudensing, New York (acquired from the artist in Autumn 1932)
Galka Scheyer, Hollywood (acquired from the above in January 1935 and until at least 1942)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (by 1948)
Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), New York (acquired from the above in 1949 and sold: Sotheby's, London, June 30, 1964, lot 45)
Acquired at the above sale
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Exhibition |
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New York, Valentine Gallery, An Exhibition of Paintings by Kandinsky, 1932, no. 25 (titled Harsh and Mild)
Los Angeles, Stendahl Art Galleries, Kandinsky, 1936, no. 39
San Francisco, Museum of Fine Art, Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, A Survey 1923 to the Present, 1939, no. 30
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Kandinsky, 1948, no. 17
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1954-60 (on extended loan)
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Literature |
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Artist's handlist no. 578
Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, New York, 1958, no. 578; fig. 418, illustrated p. 384
Hans K. Roethel & Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. II, 1916-1944, Ithaca, 1984, no. 1023, illustrated p. 922
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