WASSILY KANDINSKY Scharf (Sharp) signed with the monogram and dated28(lower left); titledScharf, dated1928and numberedNo. 253(on the verso) watercolour, gouache and pen and ink on paper mounted on card 48.5 by 32cm., 19⅛ by 12⅝in. Executed in May 1928.
PROVENANCE (probably) Nina Kandinsky, Paris Galerie Maeght, Paris (probably acquired from the above by 1957) Galerie Chalette, New York (acquired by 1957) Louis & Julia Wasserman, Sandy Hook, Connecticut (acquired in 1957) Estate of Julia Wasserman (by descent from the above in 2015) Thomas Colville Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above in 2015) Acquired from the above by the present owners
EXHIBITED Lucerne, Galerie Rosengart, Kandinsky Exhibition: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings, 1953, no. 4 New York, Galerie Chalette,Kandinsky, 1957, no. 17, illustrated in the catalogue
LITERATURE The Artist's Handlist, vol. V, no. 253 Vivian Endicott Barnett,Kandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue raisonné, Ithaca, 1994, vol. II, no. 841, illustrated p. 205
