June auction highlights: from a delicate Degas pastel to a Kandinsky painting once owned by the Guggenheim museum

Object lessons

Auctions

Art market

Kandinsky

Degas

Edgar Degas

Amy Sherald

Phillips

Sotheby's

Christie's

Major Kandinsky show opens in Saudi Arabia as Vladimir Putin arrives for rare state visit

Exhibitions

Politics

Russia

Saudi Arabia

Wassily Kandinsky

Diplomacy

Wassily Kandinsky's Black Spot (1917) is part of the exhibition at the King Fahd Cultural Centre 

"Painting the Absolute": Four volumes on Kazimir Malevich, the pioneering painter-priest of abstraction 

Kazimir Malevich

Books

Contemporary art

Russian Avant-Garde

Biography

Soviet Union

Suprematism

Andréi Nakov

Kandinsky's "Compositions" – a connoisseur's show now on at MoMA

Museum of Modern Art New York

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Abstract art

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