Wassily Kandinsky, Rapallo-Stürmischer Tag

oil on canvasboard
9 3/8 x 12 5/8 in. (23.8 x 32.1 cm)
Painted in 1906.

Provenance

Estate of Gabriele Münter
Franz Resch, Gauting (after 1962)
Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt
His sale, Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., London, June 27, 1978, lot 3
David and Lova Abrahamsen, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Inger Elliott, New York (thence by descent from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter—Werke aus Fünf Jahrzehnten, February 19–April 30, 1957, no. 42
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, Jawlensky & Major German Expressionists, October 17, 1980–January 1981, no. 16, pp. 36–37 (illustrated, p. 36)

Literature

Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, Volume One, 1900–1915, London, 1982, no. 148, p. 160 (illustrated)