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The Father of Abstract Art Wassily Kandinsky – Artist Bio + Speedpaint
The Father of Abstract Art Wassily Kandinsky – Artist Bio + Speedpaint Posted: June 5, 2025 | Last updated: June 5, 2025 Welcome to Winged Canvas, your Online School of Illustration and Art Nerd ...
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Kandinsky painting recovered by Holocaust victims’ heirs sets auction record at nearly $45 million
“Kandinsky’s Murnau period came to define abstract art for future generations,” Helena Newman, Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe and Worldwide Head of Impressionist & Modern Art, said in a ...
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OF 20TH-CENTURY ART
Just as Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1907 made Matisse's Portrait of Mme Matisse of 1905 seem passé, so Kandinsky's First Abstract Watercolor of 1910 made Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ...
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Kandinsky Painting Returned to Heirs of Jewish Collectors Could Sell for $45 Million
Next month, an early masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian-born artist sometimes called the “father of abstract art,” will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London. Titled ...
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Kandinsky Painting Sells for $45 Million at Auction
By Scott Reyburn Reporting from London A painting by the pioneering Russian-born modernist Wassily Kandinsky sold for ... after her highly decorative floral abstract “Love me nots” (2021 ...
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German Panel Says Kandinsky Painting Should Go Back to Jewish Heirs
Image Draft for “Composition II” (circa 1910). The painting displays the more abstract style Kandinsky adopted after years of more figurative works.Credit...Wassily Kandinsky/Artists Rights ...