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Modern Evening Auction
Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg
Wassily Kandinsky
Anfang (Beginning)
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2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
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Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg
Wassily Kandinsky
(1866 - 1944)
Anfang (Beginning)
signed with the monogram and dated 25 (lower left); signed again, titled, dated 1925., numbered No 358 and inscribed 40 x 31. (on the reverse)
oil on board
12 ⅜ by 16 in. 31.3 by 40.5 cm.
Executed in 1925.
Nina Kandinsky, Neuilly
Acquired by 1995 by the present owner
The artist’s handlist II, no. 358
Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, London, 1959, nos. 358 and 233, p. 336; p. 368, illustrated (dated 1926)
Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, vol. II, New York, 1984, no. 765, p. 717, illustrated
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Klee und Kandinsky, 1979
Lugano, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Kandinsky nelle collezioni Svizzere, 1995, no. 34; pp. 31 and 190; p. 191, illustrated in color
Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus; Wuppertal, Von de Heydt-Museum; Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister and Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, El Greco bis Mondrian, 1996, n.n., p. 226; p. 227, illustrated in color
Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee and Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Klee & Kandinsky. Nachbarn, Freunde, Konkurrenten, 2015-16
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