Kandinsky. The music of colors

October 15, 2025 February 1, 2026

Rarely has music played such an important role in a painter's work as it did for Wassily Kandinsky. Presenting nearly 200 works and objects from his studio, the Musée de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris and the Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou have joined forces to reveal the fundamental place of music in his daily life, in his vocation as an artist and in the evolution of his practice towards abstraction.

Exhibition co-organised with the Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre ...
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Exhibition catalog - Kandinsky. La musique des couleurs

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The relationship between painting and music during the first half of the 20th century is presented. The contributors examine the imagination of music in the work of Vassily Kandinsky. The 200 works and objects of his studio presented reveal the fundamental place of music in his daily life, his vocation as a painter and the evolution of his practice towards abstraction.

Exhibition at la Philharmonie de Paris from October 15, 2025 to February 1, 2026.

French
240 pages

Éditions du Centre Pompidou

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