Blue Circle
Wassily Kandinsky
Description
Oil on plywood
42 cm x 55 cm
42 cm x 55 cm
About the artist
Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky "became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky" and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting. However, by then, "his spiritual outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society" and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920.