Nina Kandinsky was artist Wassily Kandinsky's second wife. After Wassily's death in 1944 she oversaw his estate, selling works to major museums and after her death she bequeathed her remaining collection of his works and documents to the Centre Pompidou. In 1963 she played an "important role" in securing the first loan of artwork from the Russian government to an American museum since before WWII. She published Wassily und ich: Mein leben mit einem großen Künstler in 1976 and established the Société Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou in 1979. She was murdered in 1980.