Born in Moscow in 1866, Wassily Kandinsky became renowned as a leader in avant-garde art and is regarded as one of the leaders in abstract painting in the 20th century. Google have used Kandinsky's ...

A painting by Russian Modernist Wassily Kandinsky that once belonged to victims of the Nazi Holocaust, has sold for £37.2 million ($44.55 million) at Sotheby’s in London. Part of the auction house’s ...

The Russian lawyer-turned-painter sought to simplify art through a deconstructive approach to painting and by visualizing his inner workings. Wassily Kandinsky ...

Original woodcut in three colours (red, yellow and blue) on pale cream laid Van Gelder paper. Published in the 1938 edition of the art review, “XXe Siècle” in an edition of 1200, aside from the first ...

On “Kandinsky,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) occupies a pioneering role in the modernist canon. He was among a handful of artists ...

Summer holidays in spectacular places inspire many of us to wish we could pick up a brush and recreate their beauty in paint. Most of us forget the impulse as soon as we get back to work, if not ...