Artist: Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866 - 1944). Title: "Vorläufig Zeichnung für 'Lithographie No. II'". Medium: Watercolor, pastel, and pen & ink on paper. Date: Composed 1925. Dimensions: Overall size: 14 x 9 7/16 in. (356 x 240 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed lower left. Painted on cream wove paper. Very good to fine condition. Provenance: Nina Kandinsky (her stamp verso) to Jacqueline François; Private collection, Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy (Paris), France. Comment(s): Our present example here is a preliminary work to the finished drawing used for the lithograph published in 1925 in an edition of 50 by Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar and Dresden. The finished drawing, in pen and ink, sold for $90,230 (£68,750) at Christie’s London, June 19, 2019, lot #126. Kandinsky substantially, but not radically, rearranged key elements of our example to create the finished work. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [29913-2-24000]