AS EXECUTOR OF COLLECTOR'S ESTATE, LISTING HER KANDINSKY PAINTINGS DUCHAMP, MARCEL. Autograph Letter Signed, to art historian Kenneth C. Lindsay ("Dear Mr. Lindsay"), listing the Kandinsky artworks that belonged to K[atherine] S[ophie] Dreier upon her death in 1952. 1 page, 8vo; horizontal folds, note in unknown hand added above 1913 composition ("Entw[urf] zu Bild mit w[eißem] Rand").New York, 9 August 1957

". . . I find, in my notes about the K.S. Dreier estate, the following list of Kandinskys belonging to her when she died . . . ."Abstract oil 1921 (Russian Carnival??) sold to the Guggenheim Museum during her lifetime and to be delivered after her death"Etching (cards) 1935--6½ [inches] high--Guggenheim Museum"Composition oil 1913--38 [inches] high--Phillips Gallery, Wash."Blue Circle oil circa 1925--30 [inches] high--Mus. of Mod. Art, N.Y."Watercolor (abstract forms) circa 1912--12 [inches] high--M. of M. Art"Watercolor (free forms) 1911 or 1912--9½ [inches] high--M. of M.A."Watercolor (Entwurf für weisse Form)--circa 1913--11 [inches] high--M.M.A."The one oil (Russian Carnival) is a very important painting and belongs now to the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum."Russian Carnival, 1921--also called Circles on Black, Kreise auf Schwarz, Kreise im Schwarz, or Black Composition--was purchased by Dreier from the artist in 1926 and given to the Guggenheim upon her death.