The Vasily Kandinsky retrospective opens in Madrid
ARTinvestment.RU   20 октября 2015

About 100 works by Vasily Kandinsky brought to the exhibition in Madrid the Cibeles Palace, the Paris Centre Pompidou. The exhibition will run until 28 February 2016

CentroCentro ("Centrocentro", the Cibeles Palace)
20 October 2015 — 28 February 2016
Madrid, Plaza de Cibeles, 1

In Madrid, at the cultural center CentroCentro ("Centrocentro", The Cibeles Palace)opens a retrospective of works Vasily Kandinsky from the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition, timed to coincide with the upcoming 150th anniversary of the birthday of the master will tell about the artistic and spiritual journey of Vassily Kandinsky the language of nearly 100 masterpieces of pioneer of abstract art and one of the leading avant-garde artists of all vremen@

for the First time this exhibition was shown in 2014 at the Palazzo real in Milan, where it was visited by over 200 thousand people. After the show in Madrid's Cibeles Palace of the exposition will go in USA in Nashville and Miluoki@

the Exhibition consists of four sections — "Munich 1896-1914", "Russia 1914-1921", "Bauhaus 1921-1933" and "Paris 1933-1944" and talks about key periods of Kandinsky's life. The exhibition presents paintings, watercolors and engravings, including "Improvisation № 3" (1909), "In grey" (1919), "Yellow-red-blue" (1925) and "Blue sky" (1940).

the Centre Pompidou along with Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich, and the Guggenheim Museum in new York houses one of the largest and most valuable collections of works by Wassily Kandinsky. This collection was formed over many years. So, in 1976, the Centre Pompidou has received from the artist's widow Nina 15 paintings and 15 watercolours. Currently the collection includes more than 100 paintings, 900 drawings and 500 gravur@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: espanarusa.com, esmadrid.com, artinvestment.ru