From 1889 to 1935, Wassily Kandinsky (b. 1866 – 1944) filled numerous working notebooks with drawings and handwritten texts and even produced printed manifestos on his theoretical conception of painting and abstraction. Wassily Kandinsky: The Drawings reproduces a selection of pages of twelve of these fascinating and rarely seen notebooks for the first time. The notebooks are filled with images and ideas that can be found in Kandinsky's paintings and other works. Studies of image composition, both in terms of space and in terms of color are presented alongside with handwritten texts, including notes, observations, and poems that often touch on the work of other artists and poets that Kandinsky felt inspired and influenced by. The combination of pages from his personal notebooks with the printed manifestos vividly illustrate Kandinsky's deep interest in the theoretical substantiation of abstract painting.