Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky 1866 - 1944 Sachte. 1929. Watercolor and gouache on paper, originally laminated on cardboard. Monogrammed and dated “K/29” in the lower left corner. Inscribed “no340 / 1929 / ‘Sachte’” on the reverse. 26.4 x 40.1 cm (10.3 x 15.7 in). In the artist’s handwritten list, the work is recorded among the watercolors for March 1929 as “iii 1929, 340, Sachte”. [JS]. • BAUHAUS Kandinsky’s strictly geometric compositions from the 1920s are considered the highlights of his oeuvre. • PROGRAMMATIC “Sachte” (1929) exemplifies Kandinsky’s famous abstract art theory “Point and Line to Plane” (1926). • VISUALIZING SOUND Like a painted musical score, “Sachte” is a unique reflection of Kandinsky’s aim to express moods and tonalities through his art. • MUSEUM QUALITY Watercolors from this period are at, among others, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. • PROVENANCE Part of a German private collection for nearly 60 years. PROVENANCE: Rudolf Probst, Mannheim (according to a note in the artist’s handwritten list, presumbaly on consignment). Nina Kandinsky Collection, Paris. Karl Flinker, Paris (1962). Heinz Berggruen, Paris (1962). Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione d’Italia (1968). Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 1968). In the family’s possession ever since. EXHIBITION: Wassily Kandinsky, November Exhibition, Kunsthaus Zürich, Nov. 5–Dec. 9, 1931, no. 69. Wassily Kandinsky. Ausstelung mit Werken von 1918 bis 1933, Galerie Otto Stangl, July 25–September 4, 1962 (illustrated, no p.). LITERATURE: Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of Watercolors, vol. 2: 1922–1944, Munich 1994, cat. no. 931 (with b/w ill.). - - Roman Norbert Ketterer, Modern Art V, Campione d'Italia, 1968, no. 63. “Music, which for centuries has been the art form that uses its means not to depict the phenomena of nature, but to express the artist's inner life and to create a unique realm of sounds, is currently the most envied teacher of painting.” Wassily Kandinsky, On the Spiritual in Art, Munich 1912, p. 41 Called up: December 4, 2026 - ca. 18.50 h +/- 20 min.

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