Every summer, changes take place at Louvre Abu Dhabi without fanfare. There are no big banners or special announcements, yet the permanent galleries undergo a subtle shift. New loans and acquisitions ...

Sotheby's specialists tell stories of discovery, restitution and scholarship, looking at some of the most defining moments in ...

A painting by the pioneering Russian-born modernist Wassily Kandinsky sold for 37.2 million pounds, or about $45 million, at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday evening during a marquee week of ...

Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky was a successful lawyer before he took up painting at the relatively late age of 30. That year, he had come face to face with Claude Monet’s Haystack .

The painting is expected to break Kandinsky’s auction record of $42m (including fees), set at another Sotheby’s sale in London in 2017 by his painting Bild mit weissen Linien (1913).

This turning point for Kandinsky is highlighted in the H’ART Museum exhibition with paintings such as Improvisation 3 (1909) and Impression V (Parc) (1911), that bear out his experiments in ...

An independent German commission is recommending the restitution of a painting by Wassily Kandinsky currently owned by the ... shows the 1907 painting "The Colorful Life" by Russian artist Kandinsky.

The other painting, Das Bunte Leben (A Colorful Life), by Wassily Kandinsky, once belonged to a Dutch Jewish family.On Tuesday, the Germany Advisory Commission recommended that it be returned to them ...

Kandinsky spent the rest of his life trying to get that feeling into his paintings. Like this one, which he painted in 1925. It's called "Schaukeln", which in English means "shaking".

Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a pioneer of abstract art. His paintings have not aged and appear contemporary and relevant to us now.

An independent German commission is recommending the restitution of a painting by Wassily Kandinsky currently owned by the Bavarian state bank to the heirs of a Jewish family that the artwork ...