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 house’s ...
An advisory panel for the German government has ruled that a painting by Wassily Kandinsky should be returned to the heirs of the Jewish family that owned it before it was auctioned off during World ...
A Nazi-looted Wassily Kandinsky painting could soon fetch $45 million at Sotheby’s London on March 1. Last fall, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, restituted the work to the heirs of ...
Vasily Kandinsky, "Dominant Curve"(Courbe dominante) (April 1936), oil on canvas, 50 7/8 x 76 1/2 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 45.989 (© ...
Wassily Kandinsky considered his most important paintings to be the ten colorful, complex canvases in his Compositions series, which he completed in 1939. That he named this important series after a ...
The first major exhibition at H’Art, a former satellite of the Hermitage, explores how war and nationalism shaped the painter’s career. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam When the Hermitage ...
Before devoting himself completely to art, Kandinsky complied with his parents’ wishes and studied law at Moscow State University. He graduated in 1893 and taught law at the university for three years ...
Vasily Kandinsky, Painting with white border, May 1913. Oil on canvas, 140.3 x 200.3 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, by gift, photo courtesy ...
Playing with the boundaries between the visual and the musical is an old game. The Pythagoreans were probably the first westerners at it when they declared: "The eyes are made for astronomy, the ears ...
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