Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866 - 1944)

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian | 1866 - 1944

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1866. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like K20, Kunstsammlung NRW in Düsseldorf and will be on exhibit at Tate Modern in London on April 25, 2024. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Gagosian, Gstaad have featured Wassily Kandinsky's work in the past.Wassily Kandinsky's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 10 USD to 44,765,386 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 44,765,386 USD for Murnau mit Kirche II (Murnau with Church II), sold at Sotheby's London in 2023. Wassily Kandinsky has been featured in articles for Daily Art Magazine, Artmajeur Magazine and The Art Newspaper. The most recent article is The Art Diary April 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens written for ArtLyst in April 2024. The artist died in 1944.

Artist's alternative names: Vasilij Kandinskij, Vasily Kandinsky

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The Art Diary April 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens

Coverage

..For Kandinsky there was no fundamental difference between painting and printmaking...

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Kunstmuseum Bonn

..Consequently, Kandinsky’s prints are also able to provide an extensive insight into the basic principles of his work and his ambition to create a “spiritual and inward” experience of reality...

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Kunstmuseum Bonn

..Abandoning objectivity in a depiction and immersing himself in “the resonance of colour and shape”, Kandinsky successfully came up with three types of abstract painting...

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State Hermitage Museum

..It was in the third type of painting, compositions, that Kandinsky’s long years of creative searching found their fullest expression...

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State Hermitage Museum

..After he produced at least 16 studies, Kandinsky finally arrived at the pictorial solution to the painting: the white border...

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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