Unlike poor Vincent van Gogh, who left his unsold paintings to his family only to have more than 500 of them disappear through carelessness and neglect, Abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky was a lucky ...

The Kandinsky, the star work of Sotheby’s 36-lot sale of modern and contemporary art, sold to a single telephone bid from a buyer that was its third-party guarantor. “I was surprised.

Megan Fontanella, curator of Modern Art and Provenance at the Guggenheim Museum. Credit: Dominic Lorrimer The museum’s founder, Solomon Guggenheim, and his niece, Peggy, were patrons of Kandinsky.

It’s during this time that Kandinsky’s art leaned into geometry with a no less cosmic weightlessness, as seen in 1923’s On White II. Installation view of “Kandinsky” at H’ART Museum.

By Catherine Hickley The German government’s advisory panel on Nazi-looted art has recommended a vibrant tempera painting by Wassily Kandinsky be returned to the heirs of a Jewish family who ...

News Almost 80 years after the Nazis were defeated, ownership settled on two pieces of stolen art A 17th-century painting once owned by Hitler will go on display in Boston, and a German commission ...

Image A reconstruction of “Salon,” a 1922 Kandinsky work that was destroyed but later reconstructed under the supervision of the artist’s wife.Credit...Alizé Barthélemy It continues with ...

Murnau mit Kirche II (1910), a roughly 38- by 42-inch painting by Wassily Kandinsky Sotheby's. Next month, an early masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian-born artist sometimes called the ...

Artwork stolen by the Nazis is still popping up around the world, including other pieces by Kandinsky. In September, a Dutch panel that oversees claims on stolen art during the Holocaust sided ...

At the bottom, in pencil, the artist wrote: “Meinem lieben Otto Ralfs, herzlichsten Glückwunsch, Kandinsky I IV 28” [“To my dear Otto Ralfs, Happy Birthday, Kandinsky, 1 April 28”].