Wassily Kandinsky

The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984

Suspended Fruit https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483144

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

Iskusstvo. Vestnik otdela izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv narodnogo Komissariata po prosveshcheniiu (Art: Bulletin of the Department of Visual Arts in the People's Commissariat for Enlightenment)
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/1139705

In his seminal 1912 text Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Vasily Kandinsky advocated an art that could move beyond imitation of the physical world, inspiring, as he put it, “vibrations in the soul.” Pioneering abstraction as the richest, most musical form of artistic expression, Kandinsky believed that the physical properties of artworks could stir emotions, and he produced a revolutionary group of increasingly abstract canvases—with titles such as Fugue, Impression, and Improvisation—hoping to bring painting closer to music making. Kandinsky’s paintings are, in his words, “largely unconscious, spontaneous expressions of inner character, nonmaterial in nature.” Although Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons) at first appears to be an almost random assortment of brilliant colors, shapes, and lines, the artist also included leaning buildings, a crowd of people, and a wheeled, smoking cannon. In a letter to the Chicago lawyer Arthur Jerome Eddy, who purchased the painting in 1913 and later bequeathed it to the Art Institute, Kandinsky explained that “the presence of the cannons in the picture could probably be explained by the constant war talk that has been going on throughout the year.” Eventually, Kandinsky ceased making these references to the material world in his work and wholly devoted himself to pure abstraction. Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection

Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons)
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/1212483

Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Small Worlds IX (Kleine Welten IX) from Small Worlds (Kleine Welten)
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/1148109

Brown with supplement

Brown with supplement
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22805

Small Worlds X

Small Worlds X
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22586

Gentle accent

Gentle accent
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22794

Transverse Line

Transverse Line
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22619

The Louis E. Stern Collection

Vignette next to "Leaves" (Vignette bei "Blätter") (plate, folio 52) from Klänge (Sounds)
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/1141343

The Louis E. Stern Collection

All Saints' Day (Allerheiligen) (plate, folio 46) from Klänge (Sounds)
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/1141334

The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984

Little Hope https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483178

Gift of Nina Kandinsky

Xylographies (Xylographs)
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/1159180

Murnau am Staffelsee

Murnau am Staffelsee
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22162

Gift of Lucien Goldschmidt

Vignette next to "The Language of Form and Color" ("Formen- und Farbensprache") (headpiece, page 43) from Über das Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art)
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/1139402

Winter Landscape

Winter Landscape
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/1013202

Landscape with a steam locomotive

Landscape with a steam locomotive
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22216

Small Worlds VII (Kleine Welten VII)

Small Worlds VII (Kleine Welten VII)
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/1316437

The Louis E. Stern Collection

Improvisation 24 (headpiece, folio 8) from Klänge (Sounds)
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/1141328

Accent on rose

Accent on rose
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22659

Study for sluice

Study for sluice
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22098

Small worlds III

Small worlds III
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22569

Mrs. Bertram Smith Fund

Faun and Woman II (Faune et femme II)
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/1157189

Acquired through the Helen Acheson Bequest

The Archer (Bogenschütze) (plate facing colophon page) from Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/1138034

Colorful life

Colorful life
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22134

Composition IV

Composition IV
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22331

Gift of Nina Kandinsky

Title page (Flame) from Xylographs (Xylographies)
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/1159181

Women and Birds at Sunrise

Women and Birds at Sunrise https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/women-and-birds-at-sunrise

Circulation slowed

Circulation slowed
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22760

Rising of the moon

Rising of the moon
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22110

St. George and the dragon

St. George and the dragon
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22454