Provenance : (same as Panel for Edwin
R. Campbell No. 3)
(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) was divorced and moved. The panels
later were found in his widow’s storage in Ridgefield, Connecticut.)
Mrs. Fitzhugh Green (formerly Mrs. Campbell), Ridgefield,
Connecticut. 1929 – 1953
Auction, Green Estate, Ridgefield, Connecticut. March 1953
Virginia Freeman. Purchased at Green Estate auction, March
1953
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchased from Virginia
Freeman (together with Panel no. 3 [2.54]) with Ms. Simon Guggenheim Fund,
1954
Alternate title:
Painting Number 198
Wandbild für Edwin R. Campbell, No. 1
Spring
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