Wassily Kandinsky, born in Moscow, Russia in 1866, is celebrated as a pioneer of abstract art. ... Fauvism and Symbolism, but he quickly developed a unique style that moved towards abstraction.

Kandinsky then began to work on Composition, a series of ten canvases, the first three of which were destroyed during World War II.He considered these works his highest artistic achievement. The works ...

Wassily Kandinsky, Studie zu Improvisation 3, 1909, oil and gouache on board, sold at Christie’s London. ... The Impressionist style of the painting deeply influenced Kandinsky work, ...

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 ...

Here's everything you need to know about Wassily Kandinsky, and some of his finest works. Strandszene (1909) Kandinsky was born on December 16th, 1866 in Moscow, the son of a tea merchant.

Wassily Kandinsky, “Old Town II” (Alte Stadt II, 1902), ... They also carry a hallmark of Kandinsky’s enduring style, a sense of calculation. Each daub feels painstakingly decisive.

The Phillips Collection is opening its summer season with solo shows by two celebrated modernists: Wassily Kandinsky and Frank Stella. For Washington museum-goers, it has been quite a while since ...

Wassily Kandinsky Google Logo Shares The Abstract Artist’s Style With Users Around The World Today's Google Doodle pays tribute to the "Father of Abstract Art" on what would have been the ...

Original woodcut in three colours (red, yellow and blue) on pale cream laid Van Gelder paper. Published in the 1938 edition of the art review, “XXe Siècle” in an edition of 1200, aside from the first ...

One of the works Kandinsky produced as a result of his stay in the Bavarian Alps in the summer of 1908, Murnau: Landschaft mit grünem Haus, is expected to make up to £25 million (€28.4m) when ...