Lot 36 | Das Kleine Blau

KANDINSKY, WASSILY
1866 Moscow - 1944 Neuilly-sur-Seine

Title: Das Kleine Blau.
Date: 1924.
Technique: Watercolour on paper.
Dimensions: 48,6 x 33,6cm.
Mounting: Mounted on card (62 x 45,5cm).
Notation: Monogrammed and dated lower left: K/24. Inscribed on backing card verso: N° 150/1924 "Das Kleine Blau".

Provenance:
- Kandinsky Gesellschaft, Hanover (1925 acquired by Dr. Hermann Bode)
- Frowis Roewe, Boston (granddaughter of Hermann Bode)
- Private collection Lower Saxony
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Exhibitions:
- Galerie Neue Kunst Fides (Rudolf Probst), Dresden 1924
- Neues Museum Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein und Wiesbadener Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, 1925, number 41
- Ruhmeshalle, Barmen (Wuppertal) 1925
- Gemäldegalerie Bochum, 1925
- Galerie Nierendorf, Düsseldorf 1925
- Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover 1954, number 72

Literature:
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott: Kandinsky - Werkverzeichnis der Aquarelle, vol. II, 1900-1922-1944, Munich 1992, cat. rais. no. 708
- Handschriftliche Liste des Künstlers: Aquarelle: vii 1924, 150 (Das Kleine Blau).