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Wassily Kandinsky

April 2024

  • Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation Deluge, 1913. Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus

    Expressionists review – the vivid premonitions of Europe’s wildest-eyed geniuses

  • Wassily Kandinsky’s Study for Composition VII, 1913.

    Free expressionism: a fresh look at revolutionary art collective the Blue Rider

November 2023

  • Megan Fontanella, curator of modern art and provenance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, poses for a photograph during a media preview of the Sydney International Art Series 2023-24 Vasily Kandinsky exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Friday, November 3, 2023. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

    ‘Sheer spectacle’: biggest Kandinsky show to reach Australia opens in Sydney

    You may know his Blue Mountain but there’s much more to the impenetrable artist, says the curator of the Art Gallery of NSW show

March 2023

  • Art handlers display the Wassily Kandinsky painting Murnau mit Kirche II from 1910 at Sotheby’s auction house in London

    Kandinsky painting stolen by Nazis fetches record £37.2m at auction

    London sale comes after descendants of the owners, one of whom was murdered at Auschwitz, were reunited with work found in Dutch museum

October 2022

  • Tora Hallström as Hilma af Klint in a new film about the Swedish artist.

    Hilma af Klint: Swedish mystic hailed as the true pioneer of abstract art

    Almost 80 years after her death, a biography will be published this month, Tate Modern plans a 2023 exhibition, and she is the subject of a film, as she is finally recognised as a visionary artist

February 2021

  • Detail from Red, Black & Blue by Sam Francis (1958), included in Linda Karshan’s gift to the Courtauld Gallery.

    Drawings by Cézanne and Klee among works gifted to Courtauld Gallery

    Assembled by the late collector Howard Karshan, the ‘revelatory’ collection is hailed as important beyond its size

April 2020

  • Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and their triplets in the László Moholy-Nagy’s garden.

    Circles and Squares by Caroline Maclean review – the Hampstead modernists

    From Bauhaus to bohemian love … the intricate lives and art of interwar modernists are captured in this hugely enjoyable and well-plotted book

December 2018

  • A detail from Painting with Houses (1909) by Wassily Kandinsky.

    Dutch art panel's ruling against Jewish family criticised as 'step back'

    Committee backed museum in battle over Kandinsky painting obtained before Nazis invaded

October 2018

  • Badende, 1914, by Erich Heckel.

    Berlin recreates Nazi-baiting art exhibition from 1938

    Original London show was hailed as protest against Nazi censorship of artists they labelled ‘degenerate’

February 2016

  • Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. From Peter Duggan's Artoons

    Peter Duggan's artoons
    'Drawing is like taking a line for a walk': the best Artoons – in pictures

    Leonardo’s Last Supper gets a Come Dine With Me makeover, there’s a tricky start to the Surrealists’ day, while Braque and Picasso turn artistic mountaineers in Peter Duggan’s tongue-in-cheek art world tributes

January 2016

  • A visitor looks at Claude Monet's "Agapanthus Triptych" at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Britain, January 26, 2016. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE

    Sow, Grow, Repeat
    Gardens in Art: Sow, Grow, Repeat Winter

    A new exhibition of modernist paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts puts plants and gardens at the centre of the show

July 2015

  • A detail of Claude Monet’s painting , Lady in the Garden, 1867

    Monet and Matisse to feature in modern garden exhibition

    Painting the Modern Garden aims to be popular and scholarly, and will include some spectacular loans, says curator

April 2015

  • Picasso three musicians

    Readers' art
    Rhapsody in blue – or pink? Share your artworks about music

    When you hear music, do the sounds evoke images for you? Here’s a chance to connect your senses and share your art inspired by music

January 2015

  • Costakis

    New East network
    An Aladdin's cave of Soviet art bought on a shoestring budget

    An exhibition at Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery is celebrating George Costakis, the diplomat who scoured the USSR buying works by artists like Marc Chagall when they were still ‘worth less than a pound of potatoes’. The Moscow Times reports

December 2014

  • Launelinie by Wassily Kandinsky

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Wassily Kandinsky at 148: a revolutionary Google Doodle star

    Jonathan Jones: The great abstract artist’s paintings are spiritual symphonies that speak directly to our senses and feelings

October 2013

  • Paul Klee Tate Modern, London

    Paul Klee exhibition at Tate Modern first major UK show for a decade

  • Karl Lagerfeld's spring/summer 2014 show for Chanel at Paris fashion week.

    Chanel at Paris fashion week: a cool collection inspired by art

July 2013

  • Paul Klee's 1921 painting Comedy, when he was a teacher at the Bauhaus.

    Paul Klee re-examined in Tate Modern's major autumn exhibition

    Show takes chronological view of 'multi-layered, mysterious' Swiss German artist who was a pioneer of abstraction

June 2013

  • Kazimir Malevich - Supremus

    Multimillion-pound international art forgery ring busted, say German police

    Two arrested from gang of six that allegedly produced 400 fakes attributed to Russian avant-garde artists such as Kandinsky

August 2012

  • Jens Ferdinand Willumsen

    Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910; Edvard Munch: Graphic Works; Picasso and Modern – review

    Mirror-like fjords vie with the glittering Med in this exhilarating survey of symbolist landscape painting, writes Laura Cumming

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