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Wassily Kandinsky, Milde Tiefen, May 1928, Watercolour (pochoir) on wove paper mounted on cardboard (probably by the artist)© Kornfeld — view on Kornfeld website ↗

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Milde Tiefen

Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944) · May 1928

CHF 700,000 hammer

≈ $826,350≈ £629,984≈ €745,736

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As published: “Watercolour (pochoir) on wove paper mounted on cardboard (probably by the artist)”
Support
Board
Signed / inscribed
Monogrammed and dated by the artist lower left
Category
Prints (general)
Dimensions
48.4 x 32.1 cm, sheet size; 49.4 x 33.1 cm, cardboard
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 281: 125 Selected Works of Art</P><P>Live Auction (281)
Date
September 13, 2024
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
162
Estimate
CHF 175,000 – — (≈ $206,588) (≈ £157,496) (≈ €186,434)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (6)
  • Collection Museum Folkwang, Essen, March 1929
  • Confiscated in 1937 as "Degenerate Art" no. 3966
  • Hildebrand Gurlitt, 22 May 1944
  • Collection Anna Tschudi-Speich, by inheritance to
  • Collection Anna Blankart-Tschudi, 1987 by inheritance to
  • Private collection Switzerland
Exhibitions (3)
  • Berlin 1928, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, W. Kandinsky - Neue Aquarelle, Erich Heckel - Zeichnungen aus den letzten Jahren, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, Lithographie, cat. no. 25
  • Essen 1928-1929, Folkwang Museum, Aquarelle zeitgenössischer deutscher Künstler
  • Hamburg 1929, Kunsthalle, Kunstverein Hamburg, Sonderausstellung: Neue Europäische Kunst (gleichzeitig mit: 9. Ausstellung der Hamburgischen Sezession), cat. no. 39
Literature (2)
  • Catalogue raisonné: Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky, Werkverzeichnis der Aquarelle, vol. 2, 1922-1944, Munich 1994, no. 846
  • Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Paris 1930, Cat. No. 63

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