Gray Spots

Provenance

Noëlle Lecoutour, Paris, Apr. 3, 1944 [Barnett 1994: Kandinsky handlist]. Michel Couturier, Paris [Barnett 1994: Kandinsky handlist]. Galleria del Milione, Milan [Barnett 1994]. Sold, Galerie Koller, Zurich, May 22–June 10, 1975, lot 3467. Private Collection, Vevey. Sold, Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern, June 9–10, 1976, lot 448. Sold, Christie’s, London, Apr. 4, 1978, lot 142. Sold, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London, June 30, 1982, lot 170. Private Collection, New York [acc. Barnett 1994]. Sold, Christie’s, New York, Nov. 11, 1987, lot 160, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Gray Spots

Vasily Kandinsky

July 1934

Accession Number

186092

Medium

Gouache on black wove paper (faded to a purplish-brown tone), laid down on tan wove card

Dimensions

46.3 × 32.7 cm (18 1/4 × 12 7/8 in.)

Classification

prints and drawing

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection