Wassily Kandinsky

Russian | 1866 - 1944

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1866. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Kunstmuseum Bern. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Tate Modern have featured Wassily Kandinsky's work in the past.Wassily Kandinsky's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1 USD to 44,765,386 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 44,765,386 USD for Murnau mit Kirche II (Murnau with Church II), sold at Sotheby's London in 2023. In the past 12 months, their paintings have averaged 1,374,240 USD, while his works on paper have sold for an average of 100,380 USD.Wassily Kandinsky has been featured in articles for Daily Art Magazine, Apollo and ARTFORUM. The most recent article is Echoes of "Degenerate Art" Resonate in Paris Exhibition written for ArtDaily in February 2025. The artist died in 1944.

Artist's alternative names: Kandinsky, Vasilij Kandinskij, Vasiliy Vasil'yevich Kandinskiy, Vasily Kandinsky, Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky

Featured for Sale

EUGEN BATZ ,1905

By Wassily Kandinsky

Leipzig Auction House

IL SACRO E IL PROFANO NELL'ARTE DEI SIMBOLISTI ,1969

By Wassily Kandinsky

Bolaffi Auctions

La forme rouge

By Wassily Kandinsky

Desa Unicum

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Notable Lots

BILD MIT WEISSEN LINIEN (PAINTING WITH WHITE LINES) - Wassily Kandinsky

BILD MIT WEISSEN LINIEN (PAINTING WITH WHITE LINES) ,1913

By Wassily Kandinsky

Studie zu Improvisation 3 - Wassily Kandinsky

Studie zu Improvisation 3 ,1910

By Wassily Kandinsky

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Tiefes Braun ,1924

By Wassily Kandinsky

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Upcoming Lots

EUGEN BATZ ,1905

By Wassily Kandinsky

Leipzig Auction House

483 Wassily Kandinsky - Wassily Kandinsky

483 Wassily Kandinsky ,1911

By Wassily Kandinsky

Schmidt Art Auction

IL SACRO E IL PROFANO NELL'ARTE DEI SIMBOLISTI - Wassily Kandinsky

IL SACRO E IL PROFANO NELL'ARTE DEI SIMBOLISTI ,1969

By Wassily Kandinsky

Bolaffi Auctions

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Post-Auction Lots for Sale

Composition ,1935

By Wassily Kandinsky

TGP Auction

Wassily Kandinsky poster

By Wassily Kandinsky

Matsart Auctioneers & Appraisers, Jerusalem

Juryfreie

By Wassily Kandinsky

Desa Unicum

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Recent Auction Results

Oriental

By Wassily Kandinsky

Yann le Mouel

Bauhaus-Ausstellung Weimar 1923 - Wassily Kandinsky

Bauhaus-Ausstellung Weimar 1923 ,1923

By Wassily Kandinsky

Döbritz

EVENEMENT DOUX 1928 ,1986

By Wassily Kandinsky

Ro Gallery

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Current Exhibitions

Kahnweiler & Rupf. A friendship between Paris and Bern

Kunstmuseum Bern

Bern | Switzerland

Nov 22,2024 - Mar 23,2025

Revolutions: Art From The Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

National Mall | Washington D.C. | District Of Columbia | USA

Mar 22,2024 - Apr 20,2025

Spotlight: German Masterworks From The Kellen Foundation

Neue Galerie New York, Museum for German and Austrian Art

Upper East Side | New York | USA

Feb 15,2024 - May 05,2025

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Articles

Echoes of "Degenerate Art" Resonate in Paris Exhibition

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Coverage

“ ..For Kandinsky there was no fundamental difference between painting and printmaking... ”
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Kunstmuseum Bonn

“ ..Consequently, Kandinsky’s prints are also able to provide an extensive insight into the basic principles of his work and his ambition to create a “spiritual and inward” experience of reality... ”
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Kunstmuseum Bonn

“ ..Abandoning objectivity in a depiction and immersing himself in “the resonance of colour and shape”, Kandinsky successfully came up with three types of abstract painting... ”
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State Hermitage Museum

“ ..It was in the third type of painting, compositions, that Kandinsky’s long years of creative searching found their fullest expression... ”
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State Hermitage Museum

“ ..After he produced at least 16 studies, Kandinsky finally arrived at the pictorial solution to the painting: the white border... ”
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum