Wassily Kandinsky's 'Composition 8' (1923), painted during his Bauhaus years, deploys circles, triangles, zigzags, and ovals across a large canvas in a declaration of what he called the 'musicality' of painting. It marks Kandinsky's decisive move from the emotional abstraction of his pre-1918 work to a cooler, geometrically rigorous Bauhaus language. Bought directly from the artist by Solomon R. Guggenheim in 1929 — the first of many — it is a founding object of the Guggenheim Museum collection in New York.

Exhibition Venue

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

New York, United States

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