About This Artwork

Attributed to Vasily Kandinsky
French, born Russia, 1866-1944

Kallmünz, 1904

Oil on cardboard
6 5/8 x 10 3/16 in. (16.8 x 25.8 cm)
Signed, l.l..: "Kandinsky"
Bequest of Grant J. Pick, 1963.363

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, Richard Feigen Gallery, Recent Acquisitions, October–November 1961, no. 15.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Grant J. Pick Collection, June 20–August 16, 1970, p. 30 (ill.).

Publication History

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 47, pl. 2B12.

Ownership History

Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938) Ascona, Switzerland; by descent to her nephew, Alexander von Werefkin (1904–1982), Rome Galerie Aenne Abels, Cologne. Mr. Weiser, London, by 1960 [letter from Roland, Browse & Delbanco, April 17, 1975, in curatorial file]; sold to Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, 1960 [Roland, Browse & letter cited above]; sold to Galerie Wilhelm Grosshenig, Dusseldorf, 1960–1961 [letter from Galerie Wilhelm Grosshenig, November 12, 1974, in curatorial file]; sold to Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, 1961 [letter from Richard Feigen Gallery, December 23, 1965, in curatorial file]; sold to Grant J. Pick, Chicago, by 1963; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1963.