Skip to content
Go to Grisebach homepage

All lots

Previous Lot

Next Lot

Lot

382

Wassily Kandinsky

Moscow 1866 – 1944 Neuilly

„Horizontalee“ – based on cardboard „Horizontales“. 1939

Tapestry (wool tied) – manufacturer: Tabard Frères & Sœurs, Aubusson. 225 × 165 cm (88 ⅝ × 65 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Wassily Kandinsky. „Horizontalee“ – based on cardboard „Horizontales“. 1939.

Estimate:

EUR 18,000

 

- 20,000

USD 20,200

 

- 22,500

Sold for:

22,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions Spring 2019

ORANGERIE bauhaus forever!, Thursday, 30.05.2019

Information

Tapestry (wool tied) – manufacturer: Tabard Frères & Sœurs, Aubusson. 225 × 165 cm (88 ⅝ × 65 in.). On the reverse the label: „Horizontalee“ H.2m25 L.65 = 3mq71 carton de Kandinsky édité par Tabard Frères & Sœurs AUBUSSON / stamp: ÉDITIONS DENISE RENÉ. Presumably unique work.

Related literature: Will Grohmann: Wassily Kandinsky. Leben und Werk. Cologne, 1958, p. 234 / exh. cat.: Aubusson, la voie abstraite une collaboration entre la Galerie Denise René et les ateliers Tabard. Aubusson, Musée de la tapestry, 1993 / Vivian Endicott Barnett: Kandinsky. Catalogue raisonné of watercolours. Volume II 1922–1944. Munich: 1994, cat. no. 1268, p. 466.

Galerie Denise René, Paris (after 1945 – 1974) / Private Collection, USA (until 2005) / Private Collection, New York (since 2005)

Tapisseries d'Aubusson. Paris and New York, Galerie Denise René, 1974

Aubusson, la voie abstraite: une collaboration entre la Galerie Denise René et les ateliers Tabard. Aubusson, Musée de la tapisserie, 1993, therein: Exhibition with Aubusson tapestries at Galerie Denise René in New York, 1974, ill. p. 15 / auction: Impressionist and Modern Art. Olympia, Sotheby's, 23.3.2005, cat. no. 159

More works from Wassily Kandinsky