Wassily Kandinsky — Abrikosov Chocolate | Early Russian Advertising Poster Print

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Wassily Kandinsky — Abrikosov Chocolate | Early Russian Advertising Poster PrintWassily Kandinsky (18661944) is celebrated as a pioneer of pure abstraction, but before his Bauhaus years he produced a small body of commercial illustration work including this extraordinary Abrikosov Chocolate advertisement, one of the earliest examples of avant garde sensibility applied to commercial design. The sinuous figures and jewel bright palette show a mind already pulling toward the decorative freedom that would define his later

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