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Kandinsky's Late-Blooming Eye: A Lawyer's Path to Abstraction

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Before he redefined painting, Wassily Kandinsky spent his early adulthood practicing law, only turning to art in his thirties. Collectors of Russian avant-garde works often trace that decisive shift to the color and light he encountered later in life.

With reporting from The Collector.

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