Jocular Sounds

Artists

Dimensions

34.9 x 48.9 cm (13 3/4 x 19 1/4 in.) frame: 36.3 x 50.5 cm (14 5/16 x 19 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Ida Bienert and son, Dresden, December 1933. [Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin]. Heinz Berggruen, Paris. [Saidenberg Gallery, New York]. Sold to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1956. NOTE: VE Barnett suggests the purchaser in 1933 was Ida Bienert, rather than her daughter Ise, as Kandinsky wrote in his ledger.This provenance also incorporates information from H. K. Rothel, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings (1982-1984).