KANDINSKY V.V. (1866-1944), two works

1) KANDINSKY V.V. O dukhovnom v iskusstve [On the Spiritual in Art]; preface by Nina Kandinsky; translated by A. Lisovsky. New York: Mezhdunarodnoe literaturnoe sodruzhestvo, 1967. 160 pp.: ill.; 21.5 x 14 cm. Publisher’s illustrated binding. Very good condition. Minor rubbing to the binding. Upper cover design, engravings and reproductions in the text by V.V. Kandinsky; binding composition and lower cover design by Evgenia Zhiglevich. Kandinsky’s principal theoretical work, marking his transition from figurative to abstract painting. First published in German in Munich in 1911, it has been widely reissued in many languages and is regarded as the ‘gospel of 20th-century art’. First Russian-language edition. 2) ZEHDER H. Wassily Kandinsky. Dresden: Rudolf Kaemmerer Verlag, 1920. 53 pp.: ill., 11 plates. (Künstler der Gegenwart; Bd. 1). Publisher’s illustrated boards. Good condition. Minor rubbing and soiling, tears to the spine. A study of the life and work of Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), with twelve reproductions of his works.