WASSILY KANDINSKY
Sans titre 1917
watercolour and ink on paper laid down on card
31×21 cm

NOTE:
signed with the artist’s monogram and dated lower left 17

PROVENANCE:
Nierendorf Gallery, New York –
Galerie Berggruen, Paris –
Stephen Hahn, New York, acquired in 1974 –
Claude Givaudian Collection, acquired in 1979 –
Helen Serger’s Collection ( La Boétie Inc. ) , New York –
Henry M. Reed, Montclair, New Jersey –
Private collection –
Galleria Tega, Milan –
Vitart S.A., Lugano

EXHIBITED:
Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung, Nordrhein-Westfalen & Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Wassily Kandinsky, Aquarelle und Zeichnugen, 1992, no. 58 ill. in the catalogue
Berlin, Krugier/ Poniatowski Collection, 1999, no. 152
Venice, Krugier/ Poniatowski Collection, 1999, no. 160
Madrid, Krugier/ Poniatowski Collection, 2000, no. 156
Paris, Krugier/ Poniatowski Collection, 2002, no. 144
Munich, Krugier/ Poniatowski Collection, 2007, no. 144

LITERATURE:
Michel Conil-Lacoste, Kandinsky, Paris, 1979, p. 52 ill. in colour
Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1994, vol. I no. 48, p. 422, 1 ill.