Wassily Kandinsky Comets 1938 Lithograph Framed

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Artist: Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Title: Comets
Medium: Original color lithograph on wove paper.
Year: 1938
Signature: Signed and Dated in … Read more Artist: Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Title: Comets
Medium: Original color lithograph on wove paper.
Year: 1938
Signature: Signed and Dated in the Plate
Condition: Excellent
Publisher: Teriade
Printer: Atelier Mourlot
Dimensions: Sheet Size 10 1/4 x 14 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 19 x 23 inches.
Framing This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.

Accompanied by a Gallery Certificate of Authenticity.


Artist Biography: Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first recognised purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Kandinsky was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Communist Moscow, and returned to Germany in 1920. There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. See less