Lot 47: WASSILY KANDINSKY

PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
1866 - 1944
WEISSER KLANG (WHITE SOUND)
Signed Kandinsky (lower right)
Oil on board laid down on cradled panel
27 5/8 by 27 5/8 in.
70 by 70 cm
Painted in 1908.

Berlin, Secession, 1909

The Hague, 1909

Dresden, Galerie Arnold; Berlin Galerie Neumann and Nierendorf, Jubilee Exhibition, 1926, no. 1

Paris, Galerie Maeght, Kandinsky, 1951, no. 31

Basel, Kunsthalle, Collection Fernand Graindorge, 1954, no. 57

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum; San Francisco, Museum of Art, The "Wild Beasts": Fauvism and its Affinities, 1976

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Kandinsky in Munich, 1896-1914, 1982, no. 265

Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, New York, 1958, p. 330; no. 14, illustrated p. 350

Hans K. Roethel, Kandinsky, Das graphische Werk, Cologne, 1970, no. 113

Peg Weiss, Kandinsky in Munich, The Formative Jugendstil Years, New Jersey, 1979, no. 78, illustrated

Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1904-1915, vol. I, New York, 1982, no. 189, illustrated p. 193

(probably) Nina Kandinsky (the artist's widow)

Galerie Maeght, Paris (probably acquired from the above in 1951

Fernand Graindorge, Liège

John Schulte, New York

Otto Gerson Gallery, New York

Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Lachman, New York (until 1970)

Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles

Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above in 1970 and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 16, 1998, lot 61)

Private Collection, United States (sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 8, 2007, lot 23)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner