Printer: Mourlot

Dimensions: 64 x 36 cm

Condition: Very good 

Frame: Oak

Artist: Wassily Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist who pioneered abstract art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He had originally studied law and economics and didn’t focus on art until he was 30. He taught himself to draw while he waited for a place to study at the University of Munich. He was inspired by Monet’s Haystacks and he listened to music by Wagner because he would hear colour as sound. Philosophy, spiritualism and inner vision also inspired him to develop his artistic style. Later, in 1922, he taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar, and was given his first solo show in New York the following year. He moved with the Bauhaus to Dessau in 1925 becoming a German citizen in 1928. Many of his works were confiscated by the Nazis in 1937 during their purge of ‘degenerate art’ and after another move, he acquired French citizenship. He died in 1944 in Neuilly, near Paris.