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Provenance: Galerie Maeght, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 10 November 1987, lot 45.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 9 May 2001, lot 44.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
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Exhibited: Paris, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky: Bauhaus de Dessau, 1927-1933, November 1965, no. 2 (illustrated; catalogue reproduced in Derrière le miroir, 1965).
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Kandinsky, The Bauhaus Years, April - May 1966, no. 20 (illustrated).
Paris, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Hommage de Paris à Kandinsky: La conquête de l'abstraction, l'époque parisienne, June - July 1972, no. 10 (illustrated).
Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, Wassily Kandinsky, January - February 1976, no. 18 (illustrated).
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Kandinsky, 1923-1944, October - November 1978, no. 9 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Seville, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo.
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Literature: The Artist's Handlist, vol. IV, no. 381.
W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, New York, 1958, no. 381, p. 336 (illustrated p. 370, fig. 249).
H.K. Roethel & J.K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. II, 1916-1944, New York, 1984, no. 824, p. 767 (illustrated).
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Notes: Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite").If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Thema: Spitz
signed with the monogram and dated '27' (lower left); signed with the monogram, dated, titled and numbered '"Thema: Spitz" Nυo 381 1927' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas in the artist's original frame
31½ x 22½ in. (80 x 57 cm.)
Painted in February 1927
