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—Inger ElliottTreasures from the Estate of Inger and Osborn Elliott
Inger and Osborn Elliott cultivated an art collection worthy of praise. Their home served as a jewel box of taste, with brightly colored walls adorned with paintings, photographs, and drawings, all delicately and masterfully curated. The couple's diverse collection reflects their devotion to New York City's cultural, intellectual, and civic spheres, while also spanning a global reach of artistic styles and techniques. Inger, originally from Norway, had a passion for photojournalism that brought her to Southeast Asia, where she documented the Vietnam War from a helicopter. She would later go on to found China Seas, a design firm specializing in batik textiles. Osborn, a revolutionary Newsweek editor and social advocate, went on to become the Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Trailblazers in their own regard, the Elliotts amassed a collection including rare, early works by Willem de Kooning, Wassily Kandinsky, and Milton Avery, among those by many other innovative modern and post-war painters, photographers, and printmakers.
Inger and Osborn Elliott. Inger and Oz's eye for style, together with a casual, chic approach to curation, set them apart from other collectors. It is their charisma that lives on through these artworks, proving that a distinct approach to collecting yields the finest quality. These artworks not only have excellent provenance, but also exhibit a unique rarity and quality, remarkably contemporary despite their age.
“Kandinsky painted the view from the house they rented in via Montebello and also numerous scenes of the bay. In the Italian landscapes there is an emphasis on pastel colors and a greater freedom of execution...The bright light of Tunisia and Italy resulted in higher-keyed-tonalities in Kandinsky's pictures.”
—Vivian Endicott Barnett
Wassily Kandinsky’s Rapallo-Stürmischer Tag, 1906, is a prime, representational example of Kandinsky’s expressive and spontaneous brushwork. Translating to Rapallo - Stormy Day, the present work depicts just that – brash waves whip against a rock in the lower left corner with an overcast sky signaling an incoming storm threatening the seaside homes in the distance. Formerly in the collection of the artist, Gabriele Münter, the present work is one of about eighteen small format canvases depicting the Italian seaside town of Rapallo, providing a rare glimpse into the artist’s life and career during the months spent there.
Living with Münter, fellow artist and then-lover, in Rapallo from December 1905 to April 1906, Kandinsky painted the present work during a shift in his aesthetic when he became preoccupied with the surrounding landscape. Using his natural setting to inspire his painterly practice, the artist would depict Rapallo and the surrounding Riviera numerous times throughout this five-month period. The brushstrokes, likely created using his palette knife, are quick and short, as if the artist were standing by the shore just as the storm began to roll in. The paint is thickly applied and appears almost wet, again echoing the sea below and stormy sky above. Using a neutral color palette during this influential period, Kandinsky would turn towards a more vibrant palette in the non-figurative paintings following his time in Rapallo, making the present work a gem-like example of the artist’s early oeuvre.來源
Gabriel Münter遺產管理委員會收藏
高廷Franz Resch收藏 (1962年後)
施韋因富特George Shafer收藏
倫敦，佳士得，1978 年 6 月 27 日，拍品編號 3
紐約David與Lova Abrahamsen伉儷收藏（購自上述拍賣）
紐約Inger Elliott收藏（繼承自上述來源）
現藏者繼承自上述來源過往展覽
Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter—Werke aus Fünf Jahrzehnten, February 19–April 30, 1957, no. 42
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, Jawlensky & Major German Expressionists, October 17, 1980–January 1981, no. 16, pp. 36–37 (illustrated, p. 36)文學
Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings, Volume One, 1900–1915, London, 1982, no. 148, p. 160 (illustrated)
Inger與Osborn Elliott伉儷遺產管理委員會收藏
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《拉帕洛-暴風雨天》
油彩 畫布板
9 3/8 x 12 5/8 英吋（23.8 x 32.1 公分）
1906年作
估價
$120,000 - 180,000
成交價$101,600
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