Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)

Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle) by Wassily Kandinsky

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 140.7 x 119.7 cm (55 3/8 x 47 1/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CMC

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1978.48.1

About the Artist

Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian-born painter and art theorist who is widely credited as one of the pioneers of abstract art, producing some of the earliest non-representational paintings in Western art history. Born in Moscow, he initially studied law and economics at the University of Moscow before abandoning an academic career at thirty to study painting in Munich. In Munich, Kandin...

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