Great paintings can inspire entire volumes of interpretation. The ArtEmis project, which concluded in 2021, took a more ...

The Kandinsky salad was rated the best — by an 18 percent margin over the other two presentations. Most importantly for restaurateurs, diners were willing to pay twice as much, both before and ...

Wassily Kandinsky, born in Moscow, Russia in 1866, is celebrated as a pioneer of abstract art. Originally trained in law and economics, he began studying painting in earnest at the age of 30 ...

Kandinsky veered away from recognizable imagery around 1911. Forms become less defined and concrete; space is rendered kaleidoscopic, turbulent, and bottomless. Kandinsky’s symbols can be relatively ...

Vasily Kandinsky, "Dominant Curve" (Courbe dominante) (April 1936), oil on canvas, 50 7/8 x 76 1/2 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 45.989 ...

Vasily Kandinsky’s abstract paintings feel right at home in the recessed bays along the spiraling, skylit ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright ’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where Kandinsky’s ...

In 1937, the Nazi leadership demanded 57 of Kandinsky’s artworks be removed from the nation’s museums as part of an effort to root out so-called degenerate art. Ms. Stern moved to the ...

Read It Here Read four poems from Kandinsky's 1912 collection "Sounds," newly republished by Yale University Press. Wassily Kandinsky. Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images.

A prized painting by Russian master Wassily Kandinsky that was sold under duress during World War II has been returned to the descendants of its former Jewish owners. The oil painting, Bild mit ...

In September 2022, the Wassily Kandinsky painting "View of Murnau with Church" was returned to the descendants of a Jewish art collector who was murdered in the Holocaust. (Public domain) ...

A Kandinsky painting called "Murnau with Church II“ sold for $44.9 million in London. The painting has been at a Dutch museum for decades after the owner was killed in the Holocaust.

Sotheby’s London sold a brightly colored Wassily Kandinsky, “Murnau with Church II,” for $45 million on Wednesday, resetting the artist’s auction record and bolstering collector confidence ...