Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Projet pour un fauteuil ou esquisse pour tissu, gouache on paper, circa 1943, unsigned and undated, 34x33 cm Provenance: Nina Kandinsky, Paris (wife of the artist). Galerie Beyeler, Basel: acquired from the latter (February 1972). Swiss private collection: acquired from the latter (January 1989). Since then by descent. Exhibition: - Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Kandinsky, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, June-July 1972, p. 78, no. 91 (titled Entwurf); - New York, The Pace Gallery, Kandinsky: Watercolors and Drawings, 1911-1943, March-April 1973, no. 30 (titled Study); - Rome, Galleria Anna d'Ascanio, Kandinsky, March 1980; - New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; - Houston, The Museum of Fine Art; - Milan, Palazzo Reale and Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kandinsky in Paris, 1934-1944, February 1985 - January 1986, p. 220, no. 108 (illustrated); -Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery, Kandinsky, Bauhaus and the Paris Years, 1922-1944, November 1986, no. 20 (illustrated). Literature: Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky, watercolours, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2 1922-1944, no. 1365 (illustrated).