🔥 RARE Monumental Modernist KANDINSKY Avant Garde Exhibition Poster, 1984

Description: This is a Very RARE Monumental Modernist KANDINSKY Avant Garde Constructivist Exhibition Lithograph Poster, for Wassily Kandinsky's 1984 Retrospective Exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Moderne, in Paris, France. This poster is the very rare, massive sized version that was used by the museum itself to promote the exhibition and was not intended for sale to the public. It was printed in a very small, unnumbered edition and seldomly appears on the secondary market. This poster reads: "KANDINSKY 1er Novembre 1984 - 28 Janvier 1985...Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Moderne." Additionally, the small writing vertically typed on the right edge reads: "Kandinsky Petit Mondes I (detail). 1922...ADAGP et Centre Georges Pompidou, MNAM, 1984. Imp. A. Karcher." This manor sized artwork is approximately 46 1/2 x 62 1/8 inches (including frame.) Very good condition for decades of age, display use, and storage, with moderate scuffing, scratches and edge wear to the vintage modern acrylic frame (please see photos.) Additionally, there is some mild edge wear, creasing, and speckles of soiling to the poster itself. Acquired from an affluent estate collection in Los Angeles, California. Priced to Sell. To the interior decorators who are reading this - here it is! Due to the massive size and weight of this piece, this artwork is Free Local Pickup Only from Los Angeles County, California. However, if you are in the continental U.S. and would be willing to pay UPS Freight costs, please contact me for a S&H quote prior to purchase. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist: Wassily Vasilievich Kandinsky Born: 1866 - Neuilly-Sur-Seine, FranceDied: 1944 - Neuilly-Sur-Seine, FranceKnown for: Constructivist sculpture, abstract and non-objective paintingName variants: Vasilij Kandinskij Wassily Vasilievich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) was active/lived in Russian Federation, France. Wassily Kandinsky is known for Constructivist sculpture, abstract and non-objective painting. At the relatively advanced age of nearly thirty, Vasily Vasilievich Kandinsky abandoned a burgeoning career as a teacher of law in Moscow to take up studies as a painter. In 1896 he moved to Munich to study, enrolling in the private art academy established by the Slovenian painter Anton Ažbe, where he joined a number of other Russian artists, including Marianne von Werefkin and Alexej Jawlensky. Having failed the entrance examination to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1898, Kandinsky was accepted the following year and there studied with Franz von Stuck, alongside Paul Klee.By 1900 he was exhibiting his work at the Moscow Artist’s Association, and the following year was a founder member of an artist’s association known as Phalanx, exhibiting with the group as well as teaching at the associated art school until the group was dissolved in 1904. In 1902 he met the painter Gabriele Münter, a Phalanx student, who became his mistress and companion, and the same year he exhibited with the Berlin Secession*.In 1905 he had his first one-man show in Germany, and in 1906 he and Münter lived for a time in Paris. At this time Kandinky’s work was characterized by subjects that presented a romanticized, folkloric view of medieval Russia, but after his return to Germany in 1908 and spending summers in the Bavarian town of Murnau, he began to paint a series of vibrant landscapes in which he started to explore a new pictorial language. He also began adopting imaginary subjects, leading to compositions that verged on abstraction. By 1910, Kandinsky was producing three types of painting: ‘Impressions’, which retained a connection to nature, ‘Improvisations’, which attempted to express a mood or emotion, and ‘Compositions’, which were the most complex and were preceded by numerous preparatory studies.He also wrote a treatise, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, completed in 1910 but not published until 1911-1912. In 1911 Kandinsky was one of the founder members of the seminal group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), alongside Franz Marc and August Macke, as well as Münter, Jawlensky and Werefkin. Despite the relatively brief period of its existence, the Blue Rider may be said to have introduced modernism into German art before being disbanded with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 when, as a Russian citizen and therefore an enemy alien in Germany, Kandinsky was forced to return to the country of his birth.During the seven years he spent in Russia, between 1914 and 1921, Kandinsky worked mainly on paper, producing some forty paintings and around 150 watercolours. Kept busy by the various administrative artistic and cultural tasks given to him by the Bolshevik government following the October Revolution of 1917, he had relatively little time for his art. In 1921 Kandinsky left Russia to return to Germany, and within six months had taken up a position on the staff of the Bauhaus in Weimar. There he ran the workshop for mural painting and, alongside Klee, conceived and taught the preliminary course that was undertaken by all the students. He also continued to develop his artistic theories, publishing several essays and another treatise, entitled Point and Line to Plane.During Kandinsky’s years at the Bauhaus*, between 1922 and 1933, his abstract compositions were dominated by geometric forms of circles, rectangles, squares and triangles. He established a long, close and mutually influential relationship with the other major painter and teacher at the Bauhaus, Paul Klee, and when the school left Weimar and moved north to Dessau in 1925, both Klee and Kandinsky continued to work and teach there, with the latter eventually becoming deputy director. After its final move to Berlin in 1932, however, Kandinsky soon found his own position in the school untenable, and the Bauhaus was closed for good in 1933. Troubled by the increasingly hostile environment in Germany, Kandinsky made the decision to emigrate to France.By January 1934 he and his wife Nina had settled in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a wealthy suburb of Paris, where the artist was to live and work for the remainder of his career. Freed from his duties as a professor and administrator at the Bauhaus, Kandinsky was able, for the first time in many years, to concentrate fully on his artistic production in Paris, creating a stimulating and highly original body of work, characterized by an emphasis on organic forms and imagery. He exhibited with the group Abstraction-Création in 1934, at the Galerie des Cahiers d’Art in 1935, and at the Galerie Jeanne Bucher in 1939, the same year that he and his wife gained French citizenship. Also in 1939, Kandinsky’s large painting Composition IX, painted three years earlier, was acquired by the Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne at the Jeu de Paume, becoming the first of his major abstract works to enter a French museum collection.During the Second World War, the shortage of art supplies for oil painting at the time of the German occupation of the city meant that he worked mainly in gouache and watercolour, and exclusively so after September 1942, when he used his last canvas. Kandinsky died of arteriosclerosis a few months after the liberation of Paris, at the age of seventy-eight. Wassily Kandinsky lived in Moscow from 1914 to 1921. In 1918 he was invited by both Soviet cultural bureaucrats and his colleagues to teach at the Svomas (Free State Art Schools), the radically oriented institutions that had replaced the traditional art schools swept away by the October Revolution. Two years later he was asked to head Inkhuk (The Institute of Artistic Culture) in Moscow.At the age of fifty he married Nina Andreewsky, the beautiful young daughter of a Russian general. But his stay in Moscow was short-lived and he and his new wife, Nina, left Russia and resettled in Germany. There he spent eleven years as a master at the Bauhaus. The Kandinskys shared one of the double houses Gropius designed for the Bauhaus masters with his good friend the Swiss artist Paul Klee and his family. Kandinsky and Nina lived harmoniously together until he died.In 1929 the Baroness Hilla Rebay, a 39-year old artist turned art adviser, brought the American millionaire Solomon R. Guggenheim to visit Kandinsky's studio in Dessau. As a result, when the Museum of Non-Objective Art opened ten years later, Kandinsky's work was its esthetic and spiritual heart. That museum was the forerunner of the Guggenheim Museum of today.Kandinsky left Germany in 1933 and settled in Neuilly-sur-Seine outside Paris. He had already seen his work banned and vilified in the Nazi Party's notorious exhibitions of "Degenerate Art".He died in Neuilly, France on December 13, 1944.Written and submitted August 2004 by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California. Biography from Bonhams Bond StreetHis admirable eye, merging with his faint veil of glass to form perfect crystal lights up with the sudden iridescent glitter of quartz. It is the eye of one of the first and one of the greatest revolutionaries of vision. - André Breton in his preface for the catalogue of the 1938 Kandinsky exhibition organised by Peggy Guggenheim in London, translated by Samuel Beckett. A conjuror of sublime artistic realms, Wassily Kandinsky was limitless in achieving grand and adventurous compositions. But in the harsh grounds of reality – namely, Europe in 1933 – he once again found himself torn between worlds. Kandinsky and his wife Nina's uprooting from Berlin had been sudden, spurred by the Nazi regime's coordinated attack on Modern art, which culminated in the closing of Kandinsky's beloved Bauhaus school. As a Russian-born artist whose fame was then more pronounced in Germany than in France, Kandinsky encountered in Paris a strange hybrid of novelty and familiarity. Cubism was enjoying a fervent resurgence, the Surrealists were transforming the definition of art, and the Abstraction-Création movement was revitalising austerity and constructivism in art. But none of these dogmatic movements, with their rigid formulae and manifestos, wooed Kandinsky. While he extracted certain stylistic and technical innovations from his peers, he ultimately sought freedom and solitude in his wholly individual style. BIOGRAPHYWassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated from Odessa Art School. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession, he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia). Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.In 1896 Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. 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. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944, three days before his 78th birthday.

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