Sale: 606 / Evening Sale, June 12. 2026 in Munich → Lot 125001284
125001284
Wassily Kandinsky
Bei Oberau, 1908.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 600,000 - 800,000
$ 690,000 - 920,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
125001284
Wassily Kandinsky
Bei Oberau, 1908.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 600,000 - 800,000
$ 690,000 - 920,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Wassily Kandinsky
1866 - 1944
Bei Oberau. 1908.
Oil on cardboard.
Dated and titled "Naturstudie Oberau 1909" by Gabriele Münter on the reverse. 32.8 x 44.5 cm (12.9 x 17.5 in).
• Made in 1908 – the birth of Expressionism.
• Revolutionary: Murnau motifs paved Kandinsky’s way to abstraction.
• Peculiar confusion – Münter or Kandinsky? In the 1960s, it was mistakenly attributed to Gabriele Münter on several occasions.
• Museum quality: Similar works are at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Chicago Art Institute, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
PROVENANCE: Gabriele Münter, Murnau (through transfer of ownership of Kandinsky's remaining artworks, until 1957).
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich / Gabriele Münter Foundation (1957, donated by the above)
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York (1961, from the above)
Alan Auslander Gallery, New York (acquired in 1963: Parke-Bernet).
Nicholas de Kun Collection, Brussels (until 1968: Parke-Bernet).
H. Neu, New York (acquired from the above)
Private collection, New York.
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired in 1993 from the above: Grisebach).
EXHIBITION: Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, November 22–December 1961, cat. no. 12 (with a label on the reverse [here incorrectly attributed to G. Münter, title: Mountain Rill]).
LITERATURE: Hans Konrad Roethel, Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. 1: 1900–1915, Munich 1982, cat. no. 226 (illustrated) (here “1908”)
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Parke Bernet, New York, May 15, 1963, lot no. 50 illustrated (here erroneously attributed to G. Münter, title “Mountain Rill”).
Parke Bernet, New York, May 15, 1968, lot no. 92 with illustration (here: erroneously attributed to G. Münter, title “Bergstrom”).
Grisebach, June 5, 1998, lot 16 (here: erroneously attributed to G. Münter, title “Naturstudie Oberau, 1909”).
1866 - 1944
Bei Oberau. 1908.
Oil on cardboard.
Dated and titled "Naturstudie Oberau 1909" by Gabriele Münter on the reverse. 32.8 x 44.5 cm (12.9 x 17.5 in).
• Made in 1908 – the birth of Expressionism.
• Revolutionary: Murnau motifs paved Kandinsky’s way to abstraction.
• Peculiar confusion – Münter or Kandinsky? In the 1960s, it was mistakenly attributed to Gabriele Münter on several occasions.
• Museum quality: Similar works are at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Chicago Art Institute, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
PROVENANCE: Gabriele Münter, Murnau (through transfer of ownership of Kandinsky's remaining artworks, until 1957).
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich / Gabriele Münter Foundation (1957, donated by the above)
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York (1961, from the above)
Alan Auslander Gallery, New York (acquired in 1963: Parke-Bernet).
Nicholas de Kun Collection, Brussels (until 1968: Parke-Bernet).
H. Neu, New York (acquired from the above)
Private collection, New York.
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired in 1993 from the above: Grisebach).
EXHIBITION: Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, November 22–December 1961, cat. no. 12 (with a label on the reverse [here incorrectly attributed to G. Münter, title: Mountain Rill]).
LITERATURE: Hans Konrad Roethel, Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. 1: 1900–1915, Munich 1982, cat. no. 226 (illustrated) (here “1908”)
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Parke Bernet, New York, May 15, 1963, lot no. 50 illustrated (here erroneously attributed to G. Münter, title “Mountain Rill”).
Parke Bernet, New York, May 15, 1968, lot no. 92 with illustration (here: erroneously attributed to G. Münter, title “Bergstrom”).
Grisebach, June 5, 1998, lot 16 (here: erroneously attributed to G. Münter, title “Naturstudie Oberau, 1909”).
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