Abstract Composition, 1914, 1914
Signed and dated on left lower corner in Latin “ Kandinsky 1914” Provenance: - Igor Katchurin’s collection, Moscow, Russia, 1945 - Acquired from Irina Katchurina, the widow of Igor Katchutin into Private Collection, Paris-Tallinn, 2012 Examination: - Conservation analysis and testing, Prof. Valery P. Golikov, PhD, Departement Chief, Center of Historical and Traditional Technologies, Moscow, 2013 Literature: The World of Museum, 2 (180) March – April 2001, “Vassily Kandinsky. New Discoveries” by Vasily Pushka- riev, ex-director of the State Russian Museum, Saint- Petersburg, Honored member of Russian Academy of Art. p.44-48 Reference: - In 1933, Kandinsky left a folder with 100 watercolor and gouache works on paper chosen by him at the Leipzig Museum of Decorative Art when he left for France; - In 1937, the traces of the folder disappeared in Germany after declaring Bauhaus art, Bleu Rider, and other Avant-guard movement’s degenerative art that was subject to elimination; - In 1945, the folder appeared in Moscow in the collection of Igor Katchurin, the Soviet army officer and par- ticipant of World War II, who had returned from Berlin at that time.