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Vasily Kandinsky, Group in Crinolines (Reifrockgesellschaft), 1909. A quick Google search for Kandinsky Before Abstraction, 1901-1911 at the Guggenheim yields disappointingly few results. At a time ...
And Kandinsky wasn’t alone in seizing on it in the early years of the twentieth century, as a wildly and justly popular show in 2018, also at the Guggenheim, of the all but unknown (partly ...
Solomon R. Guggenheim, the museum’s founder, was a major collector of Kandinsky’s art, amassing no fewer than 150 canvases in his lifetime. (He died in 1949, five years after the artist.) ...
Vasily Kandinsky Around the Circle (Autour du cercle) May–August 1940 Oil and enamel on canvas 38 1/8 x 57 1/2 inches (96.8 x 146 cm) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim ...
Solomon R. Guggenheim, the museum's founder, was a major collector of Kandinsky's art, amassing no fewer than 150 canvases in his lifetime. (He died in 1949, five years after the artist.) ...
Vasily Kandinsky is getting a full-scale retrospective treatment at the Guggenheim next month (the exhibit will run from September 18th through January 13th).
Vasily Kandinsky, “Three Sounds” (Drei Klänge) (August 1926), oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 23 1/2 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, by gift ...
Beginning in 1929, Solomon R. Guggenheim, advised by his friend Hilla Rebay, the notoriously difficult painter, collector and connoisseur of modernist art, bought more than 150 works by Vasily ...
And forget about light: With rare exceptions—the Guggenheim’s Black Lines (1913) is a sparkling case in point—Kandinsky’s variegated palette resulted in musty hodgepodges of pigment. During his ...
Vasily Kandinsky’s abstract paintings feel right at home in the recessed bays along the spiraling, skylit ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where Kandinsky’s ...