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SPECIALISTS FOR THIS AUCTION EUROPE INDIA PHILLIPS HANNAH FOSTER RUTH WOODBRIDGE THERENCE DE MATHAREL Head of Department Senior Specialist Specialist Specialist Impressionist & Modern Art Impressionist & Modern Art Impressionist & Modern Art Impressionist & Modern Art London London London London BENEDETTA ALPINI CHRISTIANE GORZALKA EMILIE MILLON Junior Specialist Junior Cataloguer Junior Specialist Impressionist & Modern Art Impressionist & Modern Art Impressionist & Modern Art London London Paris NORTH AMERICA WILLIAM O’REILLY AGNIESZKA PERCHE KATHY WONG ALEXIS CHOMPAISAL Head of Department Cataloguer Specialist Specialist Impressionist & Modern Art Impressionist & Modern Art Impressionist & Modern Art Modern & Contemporary Art New York New York Los Angeles Los Angeles ASIA RYO WAKABAYASHI YAO YAO Senior Specialist Specialist Modern & Contemporary Art Modern & Contemporary Art Tokyo Beijing PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE MONACO COLLECTION 1 WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944) Ohne Titel signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'K/39' (lower left) pen and ink and pencil on paper 21.5 x 16cm (8 7/16 x 6 5/16in). Executed in 1939 £15,000 - 20,000 €17,000 - 23,000 US$18,000 - 25,000 Provenance Nina Kandinsky Collection, Paris (the artist's wife). Max Bill Collection, Zurich. Anon. sale, Finarte, Milan, 7 - 8 November 1972, lot 77. Galleria Schwarz, Milan, no. 5188. Amici Centro Arte Annunciata, Milan, no. 619. Private collection, Monaco. Exhibited Paris, Galerie Dina Vierny, Kandinsky: dessins 1886 - 1944, 16 May - 16 June 1968, no. 43. Literature M. Bill (ed.), Kandinsky, Essays über Kunst und Künstler, Zurich, 1955, no. 7 (illustrated p. 212). W. Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Life and Work, London, 1959, no. 7 (illustrated p. 250). V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Drawings. Catalogue Raisonné, Individual Drawings, Vol. I, Munich, 2006, no. 1055 (illustrated p. 485). 10 | BONHAMS IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART | 11 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION 2 PAUL KLEE (1879-1940) Ohne Titel (recto); Ohne Titel (geometrische Komposition) (verso) stamped with the artist's Nachlass stamp (to the mount, recto) gesso and wax crayon on draft paper (recto); coloured paste on draft paper (verso) 28.8 x 20.4cm (11 5/16 x 8 1/16in). Executed circa 1940 £12,000 - 18,000 €14,000 - 21,000 US$15,000 - 22,000 Provenance Curt Valentin Collection, Berlin & New York. G. David Thompson Collection, Pittsburgh. Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva & Zurich, 1963. James Wise Collection, Geneva, New York & Nice. Galerie du Perron, Geneva. Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich, from 1964. Private collection, Geneva & Paris (possibly acquired from the above, 1964). Thence by descent to the present owner. Exhibited Geneva, Galerie Georges Moos, Paul Klee, July - August 1963. Zurich, Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Paul Klee, 21 Zeichnungen, 2 May - 30 June 1964 (titled 'Personnage'). Literature Exh. cat., Paul Klee. Die Zeit der Reife. Werke aus der Sammlung der Familie Klee, Munich, 1996, no. 15 (illustrated p. 24). The Paul Klee Foundation (eds.), Paul Klee, catalogue raisonné, Vol. 9, 1940, Bern, 2004, no. 9402 (illustrated p. 239). (verso) 12 | BONHAMS (recto) IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART | 13 AR 3 LYONEL FEININGER (1871-1956) Becalmed signed 'Feininger' (lower left), inscribed 'Becalmed' (lower centre) and dated '25. viii. 43' (lower right) watercolour, pen and ink on paper 31.4 x 47.8cm (12 3/8 x 18 13/16in). Executed on 25 August 1943 £25,000 - 35,000 €29,000 - 40,000 US$31,000 - 43,000 Achim Moeller, Managing Principal of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York - Berlin has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work. Provenance Otto Gerson Collection, New York. Mr. & Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston Collection, Michigan (acquired from the above in the 1940s). Lydia Winston Malbin Collection, New York; her sale, Sotheby's, New York, 4 May 2006, lot 376. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner. Exhibited Michigan, Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Mr.