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a book cover with a black and white image of a moonan image of a red and black poster with a man in a red suitan image of a plate with a circular design on itseveral books are stacked on top of each other on a white surface
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909 - Avant-garde – Russia
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Avant-garde – Russia Chekhonin, Sergei Vasil’evich S. Chekhonin. With numerous, mostly full-page and often colour lithographic and offset lithographic illustrations, 13 of which are on plates. Moscow and Leningrad, State Publishing House, undated (1923). 104 (2) pages. Large 4°. Paperback with lithographed cover title by S. Abramov (spine missing, with minor edge wear and light discolouration). Rowell, M. and D. Wye. *The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910–1934*, no. 530 (for the original Russian edition, which was printed in a larger print run and contains one fewer plate). - First monograph on the important avant-garde graphic artist, book designer and porcelain designer Sergei V. Chekhonin (1878–1936). The volume contains the essays ‘The Master of the Soviet Empire Style’ by the art and literary critic Abram Ephros, a friend and patron of the early Chagall, and ‘On the Art of S. V. Chekhonin’ by the art writer and museum curator Nikolai Punin, Anna Akhmatova’s partner, who later fell out of favour with Stalin. – This volume, presented here in an English edition limited to 1,000 copies, contains numerous high-quality reproductions (including colour lithographs and colour offset prints) of Chekhonin’s works, amongst others designs for book covers, posters, commercial print matter and, above all, designs for plates etc. from the State Soviet Porcelain Factory, of which Chekhonin was the artistic director in the 1920s. - A few leaves loose, paper slightly browned; otherwise a well-preserved copy of this impressive, magnificently illustrated showcase of commercial art from the ‘Soviet Empire’. - Includes: Aubrey Beardsley, illustrated by Jules Laforgue. Pjero. Translated from the French by Vadim Scherschenewitsch. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Moscow, Alcyone, 1918. 47 (1) pages. Large 8°. Multicoloured, patterned. Contemporary cloth binding with an illustrated frontispiece bound in (slightly stained; the cover has finger stains and is slightly discoloured at the edges). – First Russian edition. – Minor finger stains; paper slightly browned. - Gorn. Literaturnye sborniki na proisvodstvennye temy. (Gorn. Literary Collections on Industrial Themes.) Edited by A. Kalachev and R. Lamberg. Issue 4. Wasser. With numerous illustrations in the text. Leningrad, GIZ, 1925. XVI, 215 (1) pages. 8°. Paperback with two-colour typographic title print (spine with missing sections at the corners, with marginal discolouration, slightly stained). - The fourth of six self-contained volumes in the eponymous series of almanacs, on the subject of water. - Title page bearing an owner’s stamp; paper yellowed, otherwise a clean copy. - David Burliuk. *Color and Rhyme*. Issues Nos. 47 and 48. With numerous illustrations in the text. Hampton Bays, self-published, 1961–62. 8 pp. and 48 pp. 4°. Illustrated softback. staple-bound (slightly stained, with creases; issue No. 48 with remnants of an adhesive label). - Two of the final issues of Burliuk’s periodical published whilst in exile in the US. - With minor marginal wear, otherwise well preserved. With numerous, mostly full-page and often coloured lithographic and offset lithographic illustrations, 13 of which are on plates. - A particularly rare English-language edition (with a print run three times smaller than the Russian original) of the first monograph on ‘The Master of the Soviet Empire Style’ (Ephros), Sergey V. Chekhonin, graphic artist, book and porcelain designer Sergei V. Chekhonin (1878–1936). The volume contains the aforementioned essay by the art and literary critic Abram Ephros, a friend and patron of the early Chagall, as well as ‘On the Art of S. V. Chekhonin’ by the art writer and museum curator Nikolai Punin, Anna Akhmatova’s partner, who later fell out of favour with Stalin. - This English edition, limited to 1,000 copies, contains numerous high-quality reproductions (including colour lithographs and colour offset prints) of Chekhonin’s works, including designs for book covers, posters, commercial prints and, above all, designs for plates etc. for the Soviet State Porcelain Factory, of which Chekhonin was the artistic director in the 1920s. - Some pages are loose, the paper is slightly browned; otherwise, this is a well-preserved copy of this impressive, splendidly illustrated showcase of the commercial art of the ‘Soviet Empire’. - Enclosed: 4 Soviet and Russian works of literature; for details and references, see above. This lot is subject to standard tax. A 24.95% buyer’s premium is payable on the hammer price, and 7% (books, art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints, photographs) is payable on the final invoice amount within the European Union. This lot is subject to the standard tax regime. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints and photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union.
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