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Wassily Kandinsky: career timeline

Russian · 1866–1944 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 211 of 267 lots (79% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Wassily Kandinsky: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.
Decade madeWorksSoldMedian sold priceMain medium
1900s2322$155kSign upOil
1910s2725$2.8kSign upWoodcut / linocut
1920s112107$16.1kSign upLithograph
1930s3936$7.2kSign upLithograph
1940s107$38.6kSign upLithograph

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1900s 23 works

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22 of 23
Median
$155kSign up
Average
$495kSign up
Typical size
9.5 × 12.5 in (24 × 32 cm)
Mediums
Oil (11), Woodcut / linocut (11), Watercolor (1)
Subjects
Beach scenes (2)
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1910s 27 works

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25 of 27
Median
$2.8kSign up
Average
$314kSign up
Typical size
5.5 × 8 in (15 × 20 cm)
Mediums
Woodcut / linocut (14), Lithograph (4), Drypoint (3)
Subjects
—
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…and 3 more works from this group in the full results list.

1920s 112 works

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107 of 112
Median
$16.1kSign up
Average
$137kSign up
Typical size
10.5 × 9 in (27 × 23 cm)
Mediums
Lithograph (60), Woodcut / linocut (16), Drypoint (9)
Subjects
—
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…and 88 more works from this group in the full results list.

1930s 39 works

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36 of 39
Median
$7.2kSign up
Average
$99.3kSign up
Typical size
12.5 × 10.5 in (32 × 27 cm)
Mediums
Lithograph (10), Watercolor (7), Drawing (4)
Subjects
Abstract (1)
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…and 15 more works from this group in the full results list.

1940s 10 works

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7 of 10
Median
$38.6kSign up
Average
$90kSign up
Typical size
14 × 11 in (36 × 28 cm)
Mediums
Lithograph (4), Drawing (3), Other (1)
Subjects
Rivers & marshes (3)

Creation date not recorded

56 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2000s 15 works

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15 of 15
Median
$11.8kSign up
Average
$62.2kSign up
Typical size
10.5 × 8.5 in (27 × 22 cm)
Mediums
Lithograph (5), Print (other) (3), Oil (2)
Subjects
Landscapes (1)
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…and 3 more works from this group in the full results list.

Undated, sold in the 2010s 14 works

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10 of 14
Median
$5.4kSign up
Average
$18.2kSign up
Typical size
11.5 × 9.5 in (29 × 24 cm)
Mediums
Other (7), Lithograph (4), Watercolor (1)
Subjects
Birds (1)
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…and 2 more works from this group in the full results list.

Undated, sold in the 2020s 27 works

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21 of 27
Median
$751Sign up
Average
$1.2kSign up
Typical size
12 × 11 in (31 × 28 cm)
Mediums
Woodcut / linocut (8), Print (other) (7), Lithograph (7)
Subjects
—
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…and 15 more works from this group in the full results list.

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Wassily Kandinsky auction results →