Sale: 22 / Online Sale, March 16. 2022 Lot 117001382


117001382
Wassily Kandinsky
Kleine Welten IV, 1922.
Lithograph in colors
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,050
Sold:
€ 14,375 / $ 15,381

(incl. surcharge)
Kleine Welten IV. 1922.
Lithograph in colors.
Roethel 167. Signed. Monogrammed in the stone. One of 230 copies. On machine-made laid paper. 36 x 29 cm (14.1 x 11.4 in). Sheet: 36 x 29 cm (14,1 x 11,4 in).
Sheet 4 of 12 from the series "Kandinsky. Kleine Welten". Printed at State Bauhaus Weimar. Published by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin. With the color alterations from exposure to light as mentioned in the catalog raisonné. [EH].

In good condition. Upper margin with minimal handling creases and with remains of old mounting on verso of corners, pushing through to recto. A small paper blemish in upper right of image (in right of upper green oval).

The catalog raisonné mentions the following phenomenon: "The violet and the green in this lithograph are especially light-sensitive, so that in some prints that have been exposed to daylight for too long the violet appears as graygreen and the green more bluish than in original."



117001382
Wassily Kandinsky
Kleine Welten IV, 1922.
Lithograph in colors
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,050
Sold:
€ 14,375 / $ 15,381

(incl. surcharge)