Wassily Kandinsky - Oben und links 1925
Oben und links 1925
69x49cm oil on board
Sold for: USD 8.31 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 15 May 2017
Seller: Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
From Christie's, New York:
Oben und links (Above and Left), painted in March 1925, is a radiant and dynamic work that Kandinsky completed during the last weeks of the Weimar Bauhaus. Intensifying opposition from right-wing elements in the Thuringian regional government led to the closing of the Weimar school in April 1925. The faculty and students moved to new quarters in Dessau, and reopened the school in June. Kandinsky and his wife Nina took an apartment in Dessau; he resumed teaching in July.