The Creativity of Wassily Kandinsky in Three Key Masterworks

Discover the unique genius of Wassily Kandinsky through a rare offering of three major paintings in Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale. Lisa Dennison, Chairman of Sotheby’s Americas, highlights the distinctive qualities of each masterwork while drawing attention to the contextual influences surrounding their creation. The earliest piece, from Kandinsky's time spent in the Bavarian town of Murnau, uses staccato brushstrokes to free color from representation. Kandinsky moves toward abstraction with Zum Thema Jüngstes Gericht, giving way to a fluidity and spontaneity akin to watercolor. The final piece, Le Rond Rouge, utilizes a bright palette and a geometric composition that gives the work a strikingly modern appearance. These works and more comprise The Triumph of Color: Important Works from a Private European Collection, to be featured in Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening sale. (12 November | New York)

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CORRECTIONS: 1. The house shown near the beginning where K "ended up" in Murnau belonged to his girlfriend, the painter Gabriele Münter, who bought the house with her inheritance. Why not say so? "Ended up?" 2. The photo at 3:00 of his wife is not his wife, it is Münter, and the whole chronology is completely confused. Wrong wife, wrong change of country. 3. K had nothing to do with the Surrealists, and when they published some of his poems without his permission, he was furious. --> So much misinformation about him circulates, it's hard to stem the tide. Greetings to all appreciators of his paintings.

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Beautiful artworks and commentary. Thank you.

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