Fast Company

Create Your Own Abstract Art With This Interactive Kandinsky Painting

Wassily Kandinsky’s 1932 painting Decisive Pink, like much of the early abstract painter’s work, is fun to look at. The titular pink rectangle on the left contrasts with a bright yellow background, ...
Hyperallergic

Listening to the Colors in Kandinsky’s Paintings

It's no coincidence that the current Guggenheim show Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle places a contemporary sound installation nearby to highlight the confluence of the two modalities of sound and ...
The Conversation

Kandinsky at the Art Gallery of New South Wales: a precious gem of a show celebrating the transformative power of art

Vasily Kandinsky, Painting with white border, May 1913. Oil on canvas, 140.3 x 200.3 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, by gift, photo courtesy ...
Los Angeles Times

Monet, Kandinsky paintings sell for millions at Christie’s auction

A water-lily painting by Claude Monet sold for $43.7 million while a key painting by Wassily Kandinsky brought in $23 million at a Christie’s auction in New York on Wednesday. The sales were part of a ...
Yahoo

A Long-Lost Kandinsky Painting Was Rediscovered After 70 Years. It Could Fetch $425,000 at Auction.

A 1927 watercolor by Wassily Kandinsky, a work whose whereabouts were unknown for 70 years, will be sold at a German auction house next month. Estimated to fetch €250,000–€350,000 ($304,000–$425,000), ...
Artnet

Lawsuit Asks for Kandinsky Painting to Be Returned to Heirs

A lawsuit filed Friday, March 3, in Federal District Court in Manhattan claims that a 1907 painting by Wassily Kandinsky, Das Bunte Leben (The Colorful Life), was stolen from a Jewish family during ...
CNN

Kandinsky painting recovered by Holocaust victims’ heirs sets auction record at nearly $45 million

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 ...
Artnet

A Prized Kandinsky Painting Recently Restituted to the Heirs of a Jewish Collector May Fetch $45 Million at Sotheby’s

A Nazi-looted Wassily Kandinsky painting could soon fetch $45 million at Sotheby’s London on March 1. Last fall, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, restituted the work to the heirs of ...
Business Insider

Kandinsky Painting Expected To Break Records At Christie's This Fall

Christie's highly-anticipated evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art is already poised to set records this November. Wassily Kandinsky's "Study For Improvisation 8" (1909) is expected to fetch ...
NPR

Kandinsky painting that was auctioned during WWII is returned to Jewish heirs

A prized painting by Russian master Wassily Kandinsky that was sold under duress during World War II has been returned to the descendants of its former Jewish owners. The oil painting, Bild mit ...
The Forward

Kandinsky painting returned to Jewish family as Netherlands shifts approach to looted art

(JTA) — A Dutch committee charged with assessing and acting on claims about artwork stolen from Jews before and during the Holocaust has determined that a painting by Wassily Kandinsky should be ...