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Wassily Kandinsky : the sketchbooks

by Wassily Kandinsky, Larry Warsh, Dieter Buchhart

Presenting hundreds of sketches from twelve notebooks kept between 1889 and 1935, this volume features previously unpublished drawings and preparatory studies. The collection tracks the artist's development of geometric abstraction and his use of colour and line.

Accession 31738 ISBN 9780691268507 Publisher Princeton University Press, No More Rulers
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