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Vasily Kandinsky (French, born Russia. 1866–1944. Naturalized German 1928, French 1939.)

Panel for Edwin R. Campbell No. 4. 1914

Oil on canvas, 64 ¼ x 48 ¼” (163 x 122.5 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Nelson A. Rockefeller Fund (by exchange)

Collection work meeting criteria specified in Introduction.

299.83

 

Other works by this artist

 

Provenance : (same as that of Panel No. 2)

(Willem Beffie, Amsterdam. Left in care of Beffie by Kandinsky with instructions to ship them to New York, 1914 – 1916)

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Campbell, 1914 – 1929. (Commissioned in 1914, together with Painting Number 199, Painting Number 200, and Painting Number 201, as a mural ensemble for their New York apartment at 635 Park Avenue. First exhibited in Stockholm in February 1916, then shipped to New York in summer 1916, and installed in Campbell’s foyer in fall 1916, until 1921 when Edwin Campbell (1874-1929) divorced and moved.)

[Whereabouts unknown. 1929 – 1940]

Murray Hoffman, Palm Beach, Florida. 1940

James St. L. O’Toole, New York (dealer). Acquired panels 2 and 4 from Hoffman, 1940 – 1941

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Purchased from O’Toole, 1941 – 1983

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Nelson A. Rockefeller Fund (by exchange), 1983

Alternate titles :

Painting Number 201

Wandbild für Edwin R. Campbell No. 4

Winter

Carneval

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