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KANDINSKY:
AROUND THE CIRCLE

New York - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Exhibition on view from October 8, 2021 through September
5, 2022 featuring paintings, watercolors, and woodcuts by
Vasily Kandinsky

Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle is organized by Megan
Fontanella, Curator, Modern Art and Provenance.
Drawing from the Guggenheim’s exceptional collection of
works by Kandinsky, the exhibition features approximately Vasily Kandinsky,
eighty paintings, watercolors, and woodcuts, as well as Capricious Forms (Formes capricieuses), July 1937. Oil on canvas, 35 x
45 3/16 inches (88.9 x 114.8 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
a selection of his illustrated books, spanning the artist’s
York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 45.977
earlier years in Russia and Germany and through his exile
in France at the end of his life. The presentation, installed
along the midsection of the museum’s spiral rotunda,
reconsiders Kandinsky’s career not as a fixed path from
representation to abstraction, but as a circular passage

Vasily Kandinsky,
Black Lines (Schwarze Linien), December 1913. Oil on canvas, 51 3/8 x
51 5/8 inches (130.5 x 131.1 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift 37.241

through persistent themes centered around the pursuit of
one dominant ideal: the impulse for spiritual expression.
Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle is organized by Megan
Fontanella, Curator, Modern Art and Provenance.
Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-
Vasily Kandinsky, Seine, France) is recognized as a major artistic innovator.
Yellow Painting (La toile jaune), July 1938. Oil and enamel on canvas, 45 He was among those who advanced nonrepresentational
13/16 x 35 inches (116.4 x 88.9 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 45.964 modes of art-making, to lasting effect. Uprooted time and

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