PARIS—"Kandinsky," a 100-painting retrospective, arrives at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, on April 7, following its debut at Munich’s Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau this past fall. It heads to New York’s Guggenheim Museum in September. The show draws its strength from the three organizing museums’ deep repository of the artist’s works. "None of us has made our collections available on this scale before," says the Guggenheim curator Tracey Bashkoff. "The combinations of works are ones that people have never seen."

Kandinsky was a pioneering abstractionist who plumbed the relationship between music and visual art in famous series like "Improvisations" and "Impressions," which are full of bold experiments with line and color. Although the main exhibition, on view in Paris through August 10, focuses on paintings, each museum is mounting a unique display of works on paper that won’t travel because of the items’ fragility. The Centre Pompidou is featuring 20 watercolors, several of which date from Kandinsky’s early abstract period, between 1911 and 1915. "Perfect Harmony" originally appeared in the April 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's April 2009 Table of Contents.