Vasily Kandinsky: A Colorful Life : the Collection of the Lenbachhaus, Munich
- ISBN-10
- 0810963191
- ISBN-13
- 9780810963191
- Series
- Vasily Kandinsky
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 664
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Harry N Abrams Incorporated
- Authors
- Vivian Endicott Barnett, Wassily Kandinsky, Helmut Friedel
Description
A comprehensive account of Wassily Kandinsky's early work (1900-1914), the period of his radical shift to abstraction. The works illustrated in this volume form the collection of the Lenbachhaus in Munich, Germany. The author has also compiled the catalogue raisonne of Kandinsky's watercolours.
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