1906 colour woodcut Portrait of Wassily Kandinsky by Gabriele Munter

Wassily Kandinsky (1866 �1944) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. 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 - he began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

For more biographical notes and for earlier works, see part 1. This is part 2 of a 4-part post on the works of Wassily Kandinsky. The works are shown in chronological order:

1909 The Waterfall oil on pasteboard 70 x 97.5 cm

1909 Winter Landscape oil on cardboard 75.5 x 97.5 cm

c1909-10 Two Riders and Reclining Figure oil on canvas 70.4 x 70.1 cm

1910 Church in Murnau oil on cardboard

1910 Improvisation 11 oil on canvas 97.5 x 106.5 cm

1910 Improvisation 19 oil on canvas 120 x 141.5 cm

1910 Improvisation 7 131 x 97 cm

1910 Improvisation 9 oil on canvas 110 x 110 cm

1910 Mountain Landscape with Church

1910 Untitled (First Abstract Watercolor) 188 x 196 cm

1910-11 Cossacks oil on canvas 94.6 x 130.2 cm � ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002

1911 All Saints Day l oil on canvas 50 x 64.5 cm

1911 Angel of the Last Judgment oil on cardboard 64 x 50 cm

1911 Composition IV oil on canvas 159.5 x 250.5 cm

1911 Composition V oil on canvas 190 x 275 cm

1911 Impression III (Concert) oil on canvas 77.5 x 100 cm

1911 Nude watercolour on paper 33.1 x 33 cm

1911 Painting with Troika oil on cardboard 69.5 x 97.2 cm � 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

1911 Rain Landscape watercolour 25.4 x 31.8 cm

1912 Black Spot oil on canvas 100 x 130 cm

1912 Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II) oil on canvas 120.3 x 140.3 cm

1912 Landscape with Two Poplars, oil on canvas 78.8 x 100.4 cm � 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

1912 The Last Judgment

1913 Black Lines I oil on canvas 129.4 x 131.1 cm � 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

1913 Composition VI oil on canvas 195 x 300 cm

1913 Composition VII oil on canvas

1913 Flood Improvisation oil on canvas

1913 Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)

1913 Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2 oil on canvas 117.5 x 140 cm

1913 Painting with Green Centre oil on canvas 108.9 x 118.4 cm � 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

1913 Small Pleasures oil on canvas 109.8 x 119.7 cm

1913 Study for "painting with White Border" watercolour 39 x 35 cm

1913 Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons) oil on canvas 111 x 111.3 cm � 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

1914 Improvisation 35 oil on canvas 110.3 x 120.3 cm � ProLitteris, Zu�rich

1914 Improvisation watercolour 35.6 x 44.8 cm

1914 Painting with Three Spots oil on canvas 120 x 111 cm

1914 Untitled Improvisation V oil on canvas 111 x 111 cm