Rain Landscape

Inscription: Signed (bottom right): K

Felix Muche, Ramholz, Germany (from 1916); [Galerie Berggruen, Paris, after 1948]; [Galerie d'Art Moderne (Suzanne Feigel), Basel, until ca. early 1950s; sold ca. early 1950s to Chanin]; Margit Chanin, New York (ca. early 1950s–at least 1958; sold to Thaw); [New Gallery (E. V. Thaw), New York, ca. 1958–59; sold on June 6, 1959 to Gelman]; Jacques and Natasha Gelman, Mexico City and New York (1959–his d. 1986); Natasha Gelman, Mexico City and New York (1986–d. 1998; her bequest to MMA)

Munich. Hans Goltz Kunsthandlung. "Die zweite Ausstellung der Redaktion Der Blaue Reiter. Schwarz-Weiss," February 12–April 1912, no. 65 (as "Aquarell V") [possibly this picture].

Munich. Neue Kunst/ Hans Goltz. "Zweite Gesamtausstellung," August–September 1913, no. 65 (as "Composition Nr. 5").

New York. Leonard Hutton Galleries. "Der Blaue Reiter," February 19–March 30, 1963, no. 8 (as "Rain," lent by Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Gelman, Mexico).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Twentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection," December 12, 1989–April 1, 1990, unnumbered cat. (p. 133).

London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Twentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection," April 19–July 15, 1990, unnumbered cat.

Martigny. Fondation Pierre Gianadda. "De Matisse à Picasso: Collection Jacques et Natasha Gelman," June 18–November 1, 1994, unnumbered cat. (p. 157).

L[éopold]. Z[ahn]. "Russland." Der Ararat no. 8 (July 1920), ill. p. 74, calls it "Regenlandschaft".

Will Grohmann. Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work. New York, [1958], p. 346, ill. p. 76, dates it 1911 in the caption and 1911–12 in the list of watercolors; locates it in the collection of Mrs. M. Winter Chanin, New York.

Kenneth Lindsay. "Book Reviews: Will Grohmann, 'Kandinsky'." Art Bulletin 41 (December 1959), p. 350 n. 9.

Rose-Carol Washton Long. Kandinsky: The Development of an Abstract Style. Oxford, 1980, pp. 133, 185 n. 49, pl. 192, calls it "Rain Landscape (?)," noting that it is not Kandinsky's title, and dates it about 1911.

Sabine Rewald in Twentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Ed. William S. Lieberman. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, pp. 132–34, 302, ill. (color and bw).

William S. Lieberman in Twentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Ed. William S. Lieberman. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, pp. 16–17, ill. p. 10 (color, installation photo).

Vivian Endicott Barnett. Kandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 1, 1900–1921. Ithaca, N. Y., 1992, p. 261, no. 291, ill., dates it 1911–12.

Patrick-Gilles Persin. "La Collection Jacques et Natasha Gelman." L'Œil no. 465 (October 1994), p. 48.