Oil on canvas, 66.2 cm × 82 cm (26.1 in × 32.3 in)
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky[a] (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.
Before he went fully abstract and focused on purely geometrical figures.
This work is in an art book I’ve had for ages, and just now I’m noticing that this phase of Kandinsky’s work has a bit of a Matisse feel to it.