Of the pioneers, he likes Kandinsky least, Mondrian most, and feels greatest affection for Malevich.
It picks Picasso, Duchamp, Kandinsky and de Chirico as the big influences of the century.
Other artists, notably Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevich, the Russian pioneers of abstraction, are more difficult cases.
In a Kandinsky auction at Sotheby Parke Bernet in 1971 the Nahmads bought half of the paintings.
Still, there is a downside to getting all Kandinsky with your title, like the Whisperer up there.
The trailblazing Wassily Kandinsky and the bulletproof masters of abstraction, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, doubled, tortuously, as theorists.
But the intensity of ambition of the Futurists and of Kandinsky batters misgivings.
The Royal Academy show, Masters of Colour: From Derain to Kandinsky, runs from 27 July to 17 November in London.
The exhibition includes a dramatic series of works by Kandinsky that show his journey from colour to abstraction between the years 1908 - 1911.
Gregarious, engaging and comfortable in seven languages, David cultivated relationships with the likes of dealer Kahnweiler and billionaire art collector Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, who bought works by Picasso, Kandinsky and Italian futurist Giacomo Balla.
Just as Kandinsky turned his back on figuration, so did the atonal composers of the early 20th century, led by Arnold Schoenberg, abandon tonal harmony, the fundamental ordering principle on which all Western classical music had previously been based.
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More conventional, but still huge galleries, roughly 50 feet square, are devoted to the Guggenheim's classic collection of modern art -- Picasso, Braque, Kandinsky, Brancusi, Leger, Miro -- a roll call of the names recent generations have grown up with.
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