Watercolour No. 2

Wassily Kandinsky [nl]

Item information

Watercolour No. 2

A 4029
Drawings
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Reconstruction of provenance history

1912 <> ?
: H. Goltz (art dealer), Munich
:
: Museum inventory; Barnett, Vivian Endicott, Kandinsky: watercolours, catalogue raisonné, 1992-1994. I, p. 269

? <> 1919/20
: Der Sturm (art dealer), Berlin
:
: Museum inventory; Paul Citroen archive, accounts; MNAM (Centre Pompidou), Fonds Vassily Kandinsky, letter, Weimar, 26-10-1923, Paris

1919/20 <> ? i.i.g 1923-10
: Paul Citroen (art dealer), Amsterdam
:
: Museum inventory; Paul Citroen archive, accounts; MNAM (Centre Pompidou), Fonds Vassily Kandinsky, letter, Weimar, 26-10-1923, Paris; H. van Rheeden et al., Paul Citroen: kunstenaar, docent, verzamelaar, Hannema - de Stuers Fundatie, Heino, 1994, cat. no. IX, p. 33

? <> 1954-01
: Found in the museum
:
: Museum inventory

1954-01 <> heden
: Stedelijk Museum [nl]
:

Current restitution status

No requests

Research findings

How and when this work came to the museum between 1923 and 1954 is no longer known.

The inventory card states that the watercolour was found in January 1954 in Mr de Vries's safe ('ijzeren kast depot'). How and when it got there is no longer known. During the war, Paul Citroen and Willem Sandberg, then director of Stedelijk Museum, were in close contact. In 1923, Paul Citroen had informed Kandinsky that he owned 14 of his works, including Watercolour 2, acquired from Der Sturm in Berlin in 1919-1920. On the reverse of the work, Paul Citroen wrote: 'Aquarell 2'. Under the header 'Erwin [Blumenfeld] und ich' in Paul Citroen's accounts for 1919 is an item number 6: Kandinsky's 'Aquarell II', with a comment: 'Aquarell Weimar 1000.-'. In pencil directly beneath is the word 'Museum'. This indicates that the painting may have gone directly from Citroen to the museum, although this cannot be confirmed due to the inadequate records.
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