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WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Im lockeren Schwarz
signed with the monogram and dated '27' (lower left)
gouache, watercolour and pen and India ink on paper
artist's mount: 13 1⁄8 x 9 5⁄8 in. (33.3 x 24.3 cm.)
Executed in November 1927
Provenance
Kandinsky-Gesellschaft, Braunschweig.
Richard Doetsch-Benziger, Basel, by whom acquired from the above, by 1956.
Private collection, Basel.
Private collection, Switzerland, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
The Artist's Handlist, Watercolours, no. 'xi 1927, 236'.
V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky, Watercolours, catalogue raisonné, vol. II, 1922-1944, London, 1994, no. 803, p. 171 (illustrated; illustrated again p. 141).
Exhibited
Berlin, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Oktober-Ausstellung, October 1928, no. 13.
Paris, Galerie Zak, Exposition d'Aquarelles de Wassily Kandinsky, January 1929, no. 13; this exhibition later travelled to The Hague, Kunstzaal de Bron, March - April 1929; and Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, May - June 1929.
Basel, Kunsthalle, Moderne Deutsche Malerei aus Privatbesitz, October 1933, no. 56, p. 3.
Basel, Kunsthalle, Gedächtnisausstellung Wassily Kandinsky, March - April 1945, no. 9, p. 7 (titled 'In lockerem Schwarz').
Basel, Kunstmuseum, Sammlung Richard Doetsch-Benziger. Malerei, Zeichnung und Plastik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, June - July 1956, no. 125, p. 37 (illustrated).
Lugano, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Kandinsky nelle collezioni svizzere, June - October 1995, no. 38, p. 195 (illustrated).
Lugano, Museo d'Arte, Jean Arp - Osvaldo Licini April - July 2014, no. 35, p. 278 (illustrated p. 145).
Bern, Paul Klee Zentrum, Klee & Kandinsky, Nachbarn, Freunde, Konkurrenten, June - September 2015, no. 137, p. 348 (illustrated p. 196); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau München, October 2015 - January 2016.
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