Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks

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A revelatory collection of the artist’s sketches and preparatory drawings, featuring many that have never been published before.The great Russian modernist painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky was one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Few documents provide more insight into his evolution from figural to abstract art—or into the development of abstraction in the early twentieth century—than the pages of his sketchbooks. Featuring previously unpublished drawings, Wassily Kandinsky: The…