Wassily Kandinsky
(1866 - 1944)

 

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated from 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 (today Tartu, Estonia). Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky

Développement
1926
Oil paint on card board 
32 x 40
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris