Skip to content
Go to Grisebach homepage

All lots

Previous Lot

Next Lot

Lot

18

Wassily Kandinsky

Moscow 1866 – 1944 Neuilly

”Hauptblau”. 1931

Watercolour and gouache, partially in spray technique, on yellowish paper, laid down on paper. 50 × 32,5 cm (19 ⅝ × 12 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Wassily Kandinsky. ”Hauptblau”. 1931.

Estimate:

EUR 200,000

 

- 300,000

USD 225,000

 

- 337,000

Sold for:

355,600 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2025

Selected Works, Thursday, 05.06.2025

Information

Watercolour and gouache, partially in spray technique, on yellowish paper, laid down on paper. 50 × 32,5 cm (19 ⅝ × 12 ¾ in.). Lower left in pen in blue monogrammed and dated: K/31. Catalogue raisonné: Barnett 1013. Framed

I. B. Neumann, New York (1935 received by the artist) / Nierendorf Gallery, New York / E. V. Thaw, New York / Saidenberg Gallery, New York / John McAndrew, Boston / Galerie Berggruen, Paris / R. N. Ketterer, Campione d’Italia / Private Collection, Northern Germany / Private Collection, Berlin (1998 acquired at Grisebach, Berlin)

Novemberausstellung (Kandinsky). Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1931, cat. no. 83 / Sonder-Ausstellung W. Kandinsky – Zeichnungen 1910 – 1931, Neue Aquarelle, Grafik. Berlin, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, 1932, cat. no. 55 / Kandinsky. Stockholm, Gummesons Konsthall, 1932, cat. no. 30 / Modern European Art since Manet. Manitoba, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1955, cat. no. 37 / Bauhaus, A Teaching Idea. Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 1966, cat. no. 45

Will Grohmann: Wassily Kandinsky. Leben und Werk. Cologne, Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1958, p. 347, cat. no. 733, ill. (erroneously inscribed „Leichter Bau“) / Auction 63: Ausgewählte Werke. Berlin, Villa Grisebach Auktionen, 5.6.1998, cat. no. 75, ill.

More works from Wassily Kandinsky