# Wassily Kandinsky's most famous paintings

From The Blue Rider to the Compositions: the pictures with which Kandinsky invented abstract painting, and where they hang.

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- Nov 26, 2023 · filmriss_hannover
- https://even.best/en/l/3029/wassily-kandinsky-s-most-famous-paintings

## Top 16

1. **Composition VII** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1913. His great abstract masterpiece; in the Tretyakov Gallery.
2. **Colour Study – Squares with Concentric Circles** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1913. Probably the most reproduced Kandinsky image; at the Lenbachhaus.
3. **The Blue Rider** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1903. A rider in a blue cloak; gave the artists' group its name.
4. **Composition VIII** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1923. Circles and lines in strict geometry; at the Guggenheim.
5. **On White II** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1923. Black lines and colour fields on a white ground.
6. **Several Circles** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1926. Coloured circles in dark space; at the Guggenheim.
7. **Composition X** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1939. Glowing shapes on a black ground; in Düsseldorf.
8. **Impression III (Concert)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1911. Painted after a Schoenberg concert; at the Lenbachhaus.
9. **Improvisation 28 (second version)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1912. A step into abstraction; at the Guggenheim.
10. **Murnau with Church I** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1910. The landscape around Murnau in strong colours.
11. **Composition IV** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1911. Cossacks and lances, barely recognisable; in Düsseldorf.
12. **Composition VI** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1913. The Flood as a storm of colour; at the Hermitage.
13. **Painting with White Border** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1913. A Moscow motif dissolved into colour.
14. **Circles in a Circle** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1923. Bauhaus-era geometry; in Philadelphia.
15. **Sky Blue** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1940. Little colourful creatures on a blue ground, from his Paris years.
16. **Yellow-Red-Blue** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1925. From his Bauhaus years; in the Centre Pompidou.

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