Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Studie für Landschaft (Dünaberg)

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Studie für Landschaft (Dünaberg)
signed ‘KANDINSKY.’ (lower left)
oil and gouache on board
13 1/8 x 17 5/8 in. (33.3 x 44.5 cm.)
Painted in 1910

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Provenance
Ida Bienert, Dresden.
Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne.
Private collection, Germany, by 1967, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Literature
K.-H. Hering, Sammlung Forberg, Düsseldorf, 1970 (illustrated n.p.).
H.K. Roethel & J.K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, vol. I, 1900-1915, London, 1982, no. 366, p. 346 (illustrated).
K.A. Schröder, ed., exh. cat., Das Auge des Sammlers - Monet bis Picasso, Vienna, 1998, p. 84 (illustrated p. 85).
K.A. Schröder, ed., The Great Masters of the Albertina, Vienna, 2008, no. 230, p. 560 (illustrated pp. 560-561).

Exhibited
Dusseldorf, Städtischen Kunsthalle und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus rheinisch-westfälischem Privatbesitz, April - June 1967, no. 157, p. 50 (illustrated fig. 25, n.p.).
Lugano, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Kandinsky nelle collezioni svizzere, June - October 1995, no. 12, p. 164 (illustrated).
Vienna, Kunstforum, Wassily Kandinsky: Der Klang der Farbe, 1900-1921, March - July 2004, no. 18, pp. 62 & 153 (illustrated p. 63); this exhibition later travelled to Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, July - September 2004.
Vienna, Albertina, Monet bis Picasso - Die Sammlung Batliner, September 2007 - April 2008, no. 153, p. 395 (illustrated pp. 236-237).
Vienna, Albertina, Zwischentöne: die Sammlung Forberg, October 2011 - January 2012, pp. 70 & 158 (illustrated p. 71).