Kandinsky's sketchbooks offer an unusually intimate glimpse into his work and artistic imagination. In this volume, they are presented in their entirety for the first time, by one of the foremost Kandinsky experts of our time. For the first time, Kandinsky's notes from the sketchbooks are also published. The generously illustrated and annotated catalog is an indispensable standard work for collectors, museums, scholars, and art lovers. Over a period of more than fifty years, Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) filled a total of thirty-eight sketchbooks. They contain studies for his oil paintings and watercolors, copies of foreign images, and sketches of subjects that occupied him during his extensive travels. Since the sketchbooks were never made accessible to the public during the artist's lifetime, they...