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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 ...
Kandinsky Painting Sells for $45 Million at Auction The work by the Russian-born modernist was sold by Sotheby’s in London during a week of softening auctions for modern works.
Vasily Kandinsky is regarded as one of the world’s pioneers of abstract art. While never formally diagnosed, he is believed to have possessed synaesthesia, where senses of taste, sight, hearing ...
A recently restituted painting from early in Wassily Kandinsky’s career is estimated to sell for around $45m when it goes to auction at Sotheby’s London in March, with the proceeds set to be ...
A look at Wassily Kandinsky’s ‘Schaukeln’ which introduces abstract art and synaesthesia.
Two separate paintings have been deemed to have been stolen from Jewish families who were persecuted by the Nazis.
In 1982, the Art Gallery of NSW hosted the show Kandinsky, which featured 40-odd works from the Guggenheim collection. Forty-one years later, the AGNSW is hosting the show Kandinsky, which ...
Vasily Kandinsky, Georgiana Houghton and the art of epiphany New Age religions including Theosophy and spiritualism played a role in the beginning of abstract art, as two exhibitions show.
Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a pioneer of abstract art. His paintings have not aged and appear contemporary and relevant to us now.
Two Abstract Art Stars Finally ‘Meet’ in a Long-Awaited Museum Exhibition In “Dreams of the Future,” Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky communicate posthumously through visual means.