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Description: Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Rosa Rot
signed with monogram and dated '27' (lower left); titled, numbered and dated 'Rosa-Rot- No 235 1927' (on the reverse of the mount)
watercolor and gouache on paper laid down by the artist
12¾ x 19 1/8 in. (32.2 x 48.6 cm.)
Painted in 1927

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Provenance: Galka Scheyer, Los Angeles (July 1928 and until circa 1935).
Galleria del Milione, Milan (by 1938).
Nina Kandinsky, Paris (until 1951).
Vittorio de Sica, Rome (1951).
Galleria Notizie, Turin.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 7 December 1977, lot 122.
Galleria del Milione, Milan.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 3 December 1980, lot 143.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Exhibited: The Oakland Art Gallery, Kandinsky, May 1929, no. 9.
Hollywood, Braxton Gallery, Kandinsky, March 1930, no. 20.
San Francisco, California Palace Legion of Honor, The Blue Four, April 1931, no. 21.
The Oakland Art Gallery, The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, August-September 1931, no. 25.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, December 1931-Janaury 1932, no. 105.
Copenhagen, Liniens Samenslutning, Efter-Expressionisme, Abstrakt Kunst, Neoplasticisme, Surrealisme, September 1937, no. 37.
Milan, Galleria del Milione, Arp, Domela, Kandinsky, Magnelli, Seligmann, Tauber-Arp, Vézlay, March 1938.
Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Kandinsky: gouaches, aquarelles, dessins, February 1947, no. 13.
Liège, Association pour le progrès intellectuel et artistique de la Wallonie, Kandinsky: gouaches & dessins, December 1947, no. 12.
London, Gimpel Fils, Kandinsky, June 1950, no. 8.
Rome, Galleria del Obelisco, Wassily Kandinsky, 1951, no. 7.

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Published: V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolors: Catalogue Raisonné 1922-1944, New York, 1994, vol. 2, p. 171, no. 902 (illustrated).

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Notes: PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTION