Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection 2019

Wassily Kandinsky russian, 1866–1944 Lines, 1939

Watercolor and tempera on black paper 10 ¼ by 19½ inches ( 26 by 49 . 5 cm) Signed with monogram and dated lower left K 39 provenance Nina Kandinsky, Paris, until 1972 ; Galerie Beyeler, Basel, acquired in 1972 ; Pace Gallery, New York, 1973 ; Private collection; sale, Sotheby’s Parke-Bernet, New York, May 16 , 1979 , lot 69 B; sale, Christie’s, New York, May 20 th, 1983 , lot 159 ; Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1982 – 87 ;

The Elkon Gallery, New York, from 1987 ; Private collection, Tokyo, acquired by 1992 ;

sale, Sotheby’s New York, November 17 , 1998 , lot 376 ; sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, June 7 , 2000 , lot 7 ; Private collection, c. 2000 ; sale, Sotheby’s, London, June 24 , 2014 , lot 348 ; Louis-Dreyfus Family Collections, 2014 . exhibitions Paris, Galerie Maeght. Kandinsky: Aquarelles et gouaches. Collection Privée de Madame W. Kandinsky , 1957 , no. 47 ; Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts. Aquarelles et gouaches de Wassily Kandinsky , April 1959 , no. 30 ; New York, The Museum of Modern Art. Kandinsky Watercolors , 1969 – 71 , no. 36 ; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario. Kandinsky Watercolors: exhibition first seen at the Museum of Modern Art, New York , May 23 –June 28 , 1970 , no. 37 , illustrated, as Line, Number 628 ;