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Wassily Kandinsky

Moscow 1866 – 1944 Neuilly

„Klänge“. 1907/12

Book in crimson half linen cover (front and back cover each with a vignette in gold leaf print) with 12 colour woodcuts and 44 woodcuts, each on Van Gelder Zonen laid paper. Book: 28,5 x 28,5 cm (11 ¼ x 11 ¼ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Wassily Kandinsky. „Klänge“. 1907/12.

Estimate:

EUR 40,000

 

- 60,000

USD 53,400

 

- 80,100

Sold for:

152,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 187-192

Selected Works, Thursday, 24.11.2011

Information

Book in crimson half linen cover (front and back cover each with a vignette in gold leaf print) with 12 colour woodcuts and 44 woodcuts, each on Van Gelder Zonen laid paper. Book: 28,5 x 28,5 cm (11 ¼ x 11 ¼ in.). Each woodcut signed. Signed in the colophone. There also inscribed in pencil lower left: Die farbigen Holzschnitte wurden unter meiner ständigen Leitung bei Bruckmann auf Handpresse gedruckt Kandinsky. Catalogue raisonné: Roethel 71-74, 85, 95-140, 142-146. – Roethel (Bücher) 9. From the edition of 300 numbered copies from a total edition of 345 copies. Publisher R. Piper & Co., Munich 1912. Traces of the woodcuts' ink on the opposing pages, the colour of the front cover partially slightly faded.

The present copy of „Klänge“ is an exceedingly rare example in which each individual print has been signed by the artist rather than simply in the colophone..

Traces of the woodcuts' ink on the opposing pages, the colour of the front cover partially slightly faded

Collection Otto Ralfs, Braunschweig

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