Wassily Kandinsky

Nina Kandinsky, Neuilly (acquired by descent from the artist and until at least 1955)

R. de Montaigne, Paris

Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne

Galerie Beyeler, Basel and Heinz Berggruen, Paris (acquired jointly on 10 February 1961)

Heinz Berggruen, Paris (acquired in full from the above on 20 May 1961)

Dr. Fritz Nathan and Dr. Peter Nathan, Zurich

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above circa 1961-62)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

Sotheby’s, London, 5 February 2014, lot 53 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Will Grohmann, Kandinsky, Life and Work, London, 1959, no. 621, p. 401, illustrated (titled Study)

Hans K. Roethel, Kandinsky, Das graphische Werk, Cologne, 1970, fig. 54, p. 480, illustrated (titled Studie zu Improvisation 10)

Erika Hanfstaengl, Wassily Kandinsky, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle. Katalog der Sammlung in der Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, Munich, 1974, p. 165

Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, vol. I, London, 1982, no. 336, p. 316, illustrated

Jochen Kronjäger, Karin Beth and Stefanie Bielmeier, eds., “Bücher,” Pantheon, vol. XLII, no. 1, January-March 1984, p. 100

(possibly) Paris, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky 1900-1910, 1951, no. 49 (titled Étude)

Bern, Kunsthalle, Gesamtausstellung Wassily Kandinsky, 1955, no. 24 (titled Studie)

Paris, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky: période dramatique 1910-1920, 1955, no. 3 (titled Étude)

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Vom Impressionismus zu Bauhaus: Meisterwerke aus deutschem Privatbesitz, 1966, no. 29 (titled Studie)

Ingelheim am Rhein, 1885-1985: 100 Years of Art in Germany, 1985, p. 67; p. 68, illustrated in color; p. 218

Verona, Palazzo Forti, Vasilij Kandinsky, 1993, no. 17, p. 117, illustrated in color

Altes Rathaus der Stadt Ingelheim, Die Explosion der Farbe: Fauvismus und Expressionismus 1905 bis 1911, 1998, pp. 75 and 150, illustrated in color

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Monet and Modernism, 2001-02, n.n., p. 30; p. 31, illustrated in color (titled Improvisation) 

Basel, Foundation Beyeler, Claude Monet… up to digital Impressionism, 2002, no. 57, p. 107, illustrated in color; p. 248

Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Hommage an Ernst und Hildy Beyeler. Die andere Sammlung, 2007, p. 113; p. 158, illustrated in color; p. 279