A retrospective of the works of Vasily Kandinsky, a pioneering abstract artist, goes on display at the Guggenheim Museum here on September 18, the museum announced Tuesday.
The exhibition, which closes January 13, has been organized as part of a series of special events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the museum, which was designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Already shown in Munich and Paris, the exhibition brings together about a hundred of the most important works produced by the Russian artist from 1907 to 1942.
The paintings come from the collections of the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Stadtische Galerie in Munich and the Guggenheim itself, as well as other public and private collections.
Thanks to loans from institutions such as the Galerie Tretiakov in Moscow and the National Museum of Georgia in Tbilisi, rarely seen works will be on display in New York, the museum said.
Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky lived in Germany and then in France where he died in 1944.
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