The singer

Wassily Kandinsky painted The Singer during his early Munich period, before his complete turn to abstraction. The work shows a female figure rendered in bold, simplified forms with vibrant colors that hint at his later non-representational experiments.

Kandinsky believed music and painting shared spiritual properties, making a singer an apt subject for exploring these connections. The loose brushwork and expressive color reflect his study of Fauvism and Expressionism. This painting resides at the Lenbachhaus in Munich, which holds the world's largest collection of his work from the Blue Rider period.