Sotheby’s is selling several works from the estate of late Swiss collectors Rolf and Margit Weinberg in New York this spring.

“I have various ambitions as a painter and they have to be fulfilled, otherwise I won’t feel like I’m living,” the artist has said. “I want to be remembered in 500 years, I want to be the Kandinsky of ...

The German artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) is considered to be the first entirely abstract artist. Prior to World War II, Kandinsky was part of the Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter and later ...