Wassily Kandinsky, Im Blau, 1925; Öl auf Pappe, 80 x 110 cm, ... Af Klint’s friend and artist Anna Cassel’s pictures from The Saga of the Rose are shown in a room dedicated to the five.

T he Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) occupies a pioneering role in the modernist canon. He was among a handful of artists who first ventured into abstraction. Pure abstraction, that is: ...

A look at Wassily Kandinsky’s ‘Schaukeln’ which introduces abstract art and synaesthesia. ... He even called some of his pictures compositions because he felt he was composing them.

A painting by the pioneering Russian-born modernist Wassily Kandinsky sold for 37.2 million pounds, or about $45 million, at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday evening during a marquee week of ...

A painting by Russian Modernist Wassily Kandinsky that once belonged to victims of the Nazi Holocaust, has sold for £37.2 million ($44.55 million) at Sotheby’s in London. Part of the auction ...

The painting "Murnau with Church II" by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky is on display during a media preview of Sotheby's auction, in London on Feb. 22, 2023. The piece sold for $44.9 million at ...

A state-owned bank in Bavaria announced on Monday that it would return a masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky that has hung in a German museum since 1972 to the descendants of a Jewish family that ...

The Blue Rider is the name of a picture, a periodical and a movement, all centred on the intense, bespectacled figure of Wassily Kandinsky. He painted one of the pictures with that title, edited ...

It’s a shame that the two preeminent stars of abstract art—Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky—never met in person. At one point, Swedish-born af Klint and Russian-born Kandinsky were miles ...

A painting by Russian Modernist Wassily Kandinsky that once belonged to victims of the Nazi Holocaust, has sold for £37.2 million ($44.55 million) at Sotheby’s in London.