Especially noteworthy was the high demand for modern Mexican paintings and for geometric South American abstraction, including works by Hlito, Asis and Camargo.

FORBES: Magnifico

This period culminated in the extraordinary Angel of the Last Judgement, one of the key works of 20th Century abstraction.

BBC: A passion for colour

Then, in the Ocean Park series, he made a decisive return to total abstraction, in the process creating the most original works of his career.

WSJ: The Seductive Lure of Abstraction | Sightings by Terry Teachout

The exhibition includes a dramatic series of works by Kandinsky that show his journey from colour to abstraction between the years 1908 - 1911.

BBC: A passion for colour

Gradually we saw a thread that connected the works of art we'd been buying, and it was abstraction.

WSJ: Patricia de Cisneros on Gego, Tom��s Maldonado and Jac Leirner