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Wassily Kandinsky

Geteilt (Divided), 1928

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Medium

watercolor and ink on wove paper on Kandinsky's original black paper mount

Dimensions

Overall: 48.3 x 32 cm (19 x 12 5/8 in.)
mount: 51.2 x 33.7 cm (20 3/16 x 13 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Kellen

Catalogue Raisonné

Barnett, no. 860

Accession Number

1999.51.1

Artists / Makers

Wassily Kandinsky (artist) Russian, 1866 - 1944

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Inscription

lower left in pen and black ink: VK / 28; upper verso of mount in white chalk: No 271 / 1928 / "Geteilt"; upper center verso in graphite (beneath chalk inscription): 271

Marks and Labels

two undeciphered marks stamped in black on upper verso of mount

Provenance

Hilde Haller, Zurich; (Galerie Koller, Zurich, 1975); private collection, Zurich; (Christie's, London, 4 December 1979, no. 258); (Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva); private collection; (Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 1992, no. 135); (Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York); gift to NGA, 1999.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Galerie Jan Krugier
Galerie Koller
Haller, Hilde
Hutton Galleries, Leonard
Private Collection, Italy (Baroque)
Private Collection, Zurich
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1928: Oktober-Ausstellung: W. Kandinsky -- Neue Aquarelle, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin, 1928, no. 33.

1929: Exposition d'aquarelles de Wassily Kandinsky. Galerie Zak, Paris, 1929, no. 29.

1929: Kandinsky Retrospective, Roter Turm, Halle, 1929, no cat.

1931: November Ausstellung, Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1931, no. 67.

1932: Kandinsky, Gummesons Konsthall, Stockholm, 1932, no. 21.

1934: Kandinsky, Galleria del Milione, Milan, 1934, no cat.

1937: Wassily Kandinsky, Französische Meister der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle, Bern, 1937, no. 72.

1944: Etapes de l'oeuvre de Wassily Kandinsky, Galerie de l'Esquisse, Paris, 1944.

1983: Dix ans d'activité, Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva, 1983, no. 61.

2001: A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 55, as Geteilt (Divided).

2013: Vasily Kandinsky: From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus, 1910-1925, Neue Galerie New York, 2013-2014, no. 38, repro.

Bibliography

n.d.: Kandinsky, Wassily. Handlist (Hauskatalog). Unpublished manuscript, in Fonds Kandinsky, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, n.d.: no. 271.

1994: Barnett, Vivian Endicott. Kandinsky Watercolours. Ithaca, NY, 1992 - 1994. 2 vols.

1999: Robison, Andrew. "Wassily Kandinsky, Geteilt (Divided)." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 22 (1999): 16.

2001: A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 55.