Kandinsky took up painting by chance and rather late in life, when he was already 30 years old and a successful lawyer. Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) is one of Russia’s most famous artists and ...

A display from the Guggenheim’s permanent collection showcases Kandinsky’s early work produced in Munich between 1903 and 1911, the year he published “Concerning the Spiritual in Art.” Kandinsky came ...

Kandinsky was active in successive artistic groups. In 1911, with his friend Franz Marc, he founded Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Horseman). This brief, brilliant period in German art ended with the ...

In 1903, Wassily Kandinsky painted a figure in a blue cloak galloping across a landscape on a white horse. Several years later the name of the painting, The Blue Rider (der Blaue Reiter) was adopted ...

A water-lily painting by Claude Monet sold for $43.7 million while a key painting by Wassily Kandinsky brought in $23 million at a Christie’s auction in New York on Wednesday. The sales were ...

KandinskyGuggenheim Museum Through January 13, 2010 If Wassily Kandinsky had lived only as long as Raphael and Caravaggio, he wouldn't merit so much as a footnote in the history of art. Indeed ...