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 see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1, 2 and 3. This is part 4 of a 4-part post on the works of Wassily Kandinsky. The works are shown in chronological order:

1928 Black-Red

1928 Little Game

1928 On the Points

1929 Downward

1929 Upward oil on cardboard

1930 Capricious oil on cardboard 40.5 x 56 cm

1930 Green Emptiness

1930 Three Rectangles

1931 Black Lace oil on cardboard 70 x 59.5 cm � ProLitteris, Zu�rich

1931 Brownish oil on cardboard 49.2 x 70.2 cm

1931 Circulation Slowed

1932 Decisive Pink oil on canvas 80.9 x 100 cm

1933 Compensation Rose

1933 Gloomy Situation watercolour, gouache & pencil on paper 47.3 x 66.8 cm

1933 Soft Roughness

1933 Increase oil, egg tempera & ink on paper 51 x 31.4 cm

1934 Surfaces Meeting

1935 Brown with Supplement

1935 Orange Violet oil on canvas 88.9 x 116.2 cm

1935 Two Green Points

1936 Composition IX oil on canvas 113.5 x 195 cm

1936 Dominant Curve oil on canvas 129.3 x 194.3 cm

1936 White Line

1937 Thirty oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm

1938 Colourful Ensemble oil & gloss on canvas 116 x 89 cm

1939 Composition X

1940 Around the Circle

1940 Sky Blue oil on canvas 100 x 73 cm

1940 Various Parts

1941 Various Actions oil & enamel on canvas

1942 A Floating Figure

1942 Intime Message

1942 Reciprocal Accords

1943 Conglomerat

1943 The Arrow oil on cardboard 41.9 x 57.9 cm � ProLitteris, Zu�rich

1944 Composition

1944 Tempered Elan oil on cardboard 42 x 58 cm

1944 Untitled