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Russian Literature & Art
NY017
RUSSIAN
Literature & Art
Auction 29 October 2008
New York

RUSSIAN
Literature & Art
Sale NY017
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October 17 Photographs
October 22 Vintage and Modern Posters
October 29 Russian Literature and Art
November 5 20th Century Prints
November 11 Natural History
Featuring the Charles Abbott Collection
November 19 The Jay T. Snider Collection
Featuring the History of Philadelphia and Important Americana
December 2 Visual Arts and Bibliophile Sale
December 4 The Ivan Collection of Russian Literature
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The Property of a New York Collector
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Front Cover Illustration, Lot 198
Back Cover Illustration, Lot 245
Photography by Oliver Lei Han
Catalogue Production by Maris Bellack
RUSSIAN
Literature & Art
29 October 10 am
Books and Manuscripts 1-141
Ballets Russes 142-151
Periodicals 152-178
Posters 179-198
Art & Illustration 199-251
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Introduction
Following the highly successful inaugural Russian auction last Spring, Bloomsbury in New York is proud to offer an equally extraordinary
selection of Russian books, letters, manuscripts, periodicals, photographs, prints, posters, drawings and paintings. The imperial era
is represented by a large collection of cartes de visite, cabinet and wire photographs of four decades of the Romanov family. These are
supplemented by two rare works by Nicholas II’s poet-playwright uncle, the Grand Duke Konstantin. Tolstoy is represented by the rare
first edition of one of his plays and Chekhov by a presentation copy of a collection of his short stories he gave a waiter at the Grand Hotel
in Moscow. Other signed books include works by Benois, Erenburg, Kuprin, Sologub and Zorgenfrei. The brief period of sexual freedom
of the first decades of the twentieth century is exemplified by the androgynous woman poet Zinaida Gippius, who wrote as “Anton Krainii,”
and the Russian gay icon Mikhail Kuzmin, who created a sensation with his “coming out” novel Krylya [Wings] (1908). The niece of the
doomed poet Gumilev passed her autograph book to such luminaries as Akhmatova, Annenskii, Blok, Gumilev, Kuzmin, Meierkhold,
Remizov, Voloshin and other poets and artists to fill it in with poetry and pictures. Poetry and art came together in complete runs of the
beautifully produced journals Apollon, Vesy and Zolotoe runo. Stolitsa i usadba provided a last glimpse of the Russian aristocracy on the eve
of the Revolution; the issue devoted to the Royal Family included here was confiscated by the Bolsheviks. The evolution of Symbolism,
Acmeism, Futurism, Suprematism, Constructivism and other modern literary and art movements can be traced in other books, almanacs
and periodicals with contributions by Akhmatova, Bakst, Balmont, Benois, Chukovsky, Kandinsky, Kuzmin, Malevich, Mandelshtam,
Nabokov, and Pasternak. The galvanizing collaborative efforts of the Russian avant-garde are well represented with important works by
Burliuk, Goncharova, Kruchenykh, Larionov, Lissitzky, Mayakovsky and Rodchenko.
The flowering of Russian graphic art of the Silver Age reached its zenith in Sergei Diaghilev’s consolidation of art, music and dance—the
Ballets Russes. This company as well as the famous Russian cabaret Chauve-souris is well represented in the current sale. Both Diaghilev and
Nijinsky autographed a rare Ballets Russes programme of their American tour. Benois decorated a letter with an exquisite scene from Swan
Lake. There are also several costume designs by Benois and a handsome set design by his son Nicola for Revizor [The Inspector General].
Other art in this sale reflects the extraordinary variety and depth of Russian visual expression. Two classic landscapes by Shilder and Von
Klever contrast beautifully with modern ones by Khudyakov and Vasiliev. The versatile Sudeikin painted a delightful Pierrot in gouache as
well as a witty group of commedia dell’arte dolls in oil. The portraits include an iconic photograph of an intense Mayakovsky by Rodchenko
and a handsome painting of Nikita Baileff ’s wife Elena by Boris Chaliapin, the son of the legendary Russian opera singer. Somov’s beautiful
pastel of the grand patroness Genrietta Girshman is one of the artist’s finest studies. The proof for Altman’s dynamic 1919 Suprematist
brochure cover is known by only two copies. There is both a preliminary drawing and a proof for one of Kustodiev’s famous linocuts
glorifying the Russian peasant. Puny painted several delightful Suprematist figures in gouache on postcards and designed and assembled an
extraordinary artist’s book of collage, gouache and cut letters. There are also fine prints and posters and paintings by such important modern
Russian artists as Chekhonin, Dobuzhinsky, Goncharova, Kaplan, Larionov, Lebedev, Lissim, Pozhedaev, Ryback and Sudeikin.
Lot 237
Michael Patrick Hearn and John Larson
September 2008
Books & Manuscripts
Lot 1. AKHMATOVA, Anna (1889-1966), Osip MANDELSHTAM (1891-1938),
Vladislav KHODASEVICH (1886-1939) and others.
Liricheskii krug. Stranitsy poezii i kritiki. I [A Lyrical Circle. Pages of Poetry and Criticism. Volume.1]. Moscow: “Severnye Dni,” 1922. 96 pp. Small
8vo (200 x 140 mm). Original Constructivist wrappers designed Nikolai Kupreyanov. Condition: wrappers lightly thumbsoiled.
one of 2000 copies. With contributions by Anna Akhmatova, Leonid Grossman, Konstantin Lipskerov, Osip Mandelshtam, Sofia Parnok,
Vladislav Khodasevich, Sergei Shervisnkii, Abram Efros, Andrei Globa and others. Both Akhmatova and Mandelshtam were later persecuted
by the Soviet authorities; he died in the Gulag in 1938. Khodasevich left for Berlin where he early championed Vladimir Nabokov. He called
Khodasevich “the greatest Russian poet of our time.” Not in MoMA.
$500 – $800
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Lot 2. AKSENOV, Ivan (1883-1935) and
Alexandra EXTER (1882-1949) (illustrator).
Pikasso i okrestosti [Picasso and Environs]. Moscow: Tsentrifuga,
1917. 62 pp. 4to (270 x 205 mm). Title in purple and red. 8 pages of
publisher’s advertisements at end. With 12 photogravures of works
by Picasso. Original wrappers with pictorial label by Alexandra Exter.
Condition: front wrapper partially detached with soiling, backstrip
chipped at extremities with some loss, rubber stamps to back cover,
corners creased.
an important early theoretical treatise on Cubism and its
aesthetics featuring Alexandra Exter’s striking cover design. one of
1000 copies. In the 1920s, Aksenov was close to the Constructivists
and worked in the theatre of Vsevolod Meierkhold, also serving as
the dean of its directors school. Critic, poet, and translator, he was an
outstanding representative of the genre crossing and internationalist
spirit of Russian avant-garde art. MoMA 148.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 3. ALEKSEIEV, Aleksandr (1901-1979)
and Philippe SOUPAULT (1897-1990) (translator).
Chant Du Prince Igor Version française de Soupault. [colophon:
Rolle, Switzerland:] Eynard, [colophon: 11 April 1950]. 4to
(283 x 226 mm). Half-title in brown, title in grey, light green and dark
brown, text in French and Russian; printed in brown, 10 colored
etched and aquatint illustrations, 7 colored etched and aquatint
plates, all by Alekseiev. Unbound as issued within original wrappers,
title and an aquatint panel on upper cover, within original chemise
and slip-case. Condition: very light scuffing to chemise and slip-case.
Limited to 290 copies, Number 90 of 230 copies on “arches” paper
numbered from 35 to 264.
[With:] A. ALEKSEIEV and Nicholai GOGOL (1809-1852). The
Diary of a Madman… Translated by Prince Mirsky. London: The
Cresset Press, 1929. 4to (268 x 205 mm). Half-title, small format
copyright slip tipped onto limitation leaf. 11 aquatint illustrations,
10 aquatint plates, all by Alekseiev. Original yellow cloth, lettered in
red on upper cover and spine. Condition: some overall light toning
to the text block; some soiling to the binding. Limited edition of
280 copies, this number 149 of 250 copies on mould-made paper
numbered from 1 to 250. (2)
$1600 – $2000
Lot 4. ALTMAN, Nathan Isaevich (1889-1970).
Lenin. Petersburg: IZO NKP, 1921. 14 pp. 8vo (222 x 185 mm).
Lithographs. Printed paper wrappers with Suprematist design in
red and black on front cover. Lithographed signature of Lenin
dated 4/21/20. Condition: wrappers slightly tanned, front cover
with horizontal razor cut repaired on verso not affecting text and is
evident on flyleaf and title page, backstrip rubbed with small repairs
to head and tail.
first edition. one of 5000 copies. Nine portraits of Lenin and
a view of the Kremlin from Lenin’s office, each signed in the plate
by Altman and dated May 1920. The partial seal of the Academy of
Painting, Sculpture & Architecture is embossed on the portrait leaf.
MoMA 331.
$2000 – $3000
Lot 5. ASEEV, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1889-1963).
Bomba. Stikhi [Bomba.Verse]. Vladivostock: “Dalnevostochnaya
Tribuna,” 1921. 62 pp. 8vo (185 x 135 mm). Contemporary
cloth-backed marbled boards with original gray wrappers bound
in. Condition: wrappers soiled, internal foxing. Provenance: Tanya
Gomoletska. Inscribed on the verso of the title page with an
unpublished poem and dated May 31, 1921. The poet has made
corrections in pencil throughout the text.
[With:] Moskva-pesnya [Moscow-Song ]. Moscow: Moskovskoe
Tovarishchestvo Pisatelei, [1934]. 223 pp. 8vo (175 x 125 mm).
Drawings by Tatyana Alekseevna Mavrina. Decorated orange cloth
in original dust wrapper, both designed by T. A. Mavrina. Condition:
bookstore stamps on rear free endpaper. A bibliography of the
author’s books of poetry is added to the colophon. (2)
$1000 – $1500
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Lot 6. ANNENKOV, Iurii Pavlovich [Georges Annenkoff] (1889-1974) and Fodor Mikhailovich DOSTOEVSKY (1821-1881).
Scandaleuse Histoire Traduction originale d’Alexis Remisoff et Jean Chuzeville. Paris: les Éditions des Quatre Vents, 1945. 4to (276 x 190 mm).
Title in brown and black, half-title, occasional two-color intials. Portrait frontispiece, 14 plates colored using the pochoir process, 13 twocolor
headpieces, 23 uncolored tailpieces and illustrations, all after Annenkov. Unbound as issued in original paper wrappers, three-color
title with vignette printed on upper cover, lettered on backstrip, original board chemise, original slipcase. Condition: light soiling to backstrip
of chemise.
limited edition of 986 copies, this number 433 of 750 copies on “papier pur fil johannot” numbered from 1 to 750.
$800 – $1200
Lot 7. ANNENKOV, Iurii Pavlovich [Georges Annenkoff] (1889-1974) (illustrator).
Crime à San-Francisco. Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1927. 89 pp. 8vo (210 x 165 mm). By “Luc Durtain” [André Nepveu]. With 8 lithographs by Iu.
P. Annenkov. Rebound in fine half gilt red morocco over marbled boards by Greuzevault with the original aqua wrappers bound in, t.e.g.
Condition: wrappers with very light toning to edges.
number 749 of 650 copies on vélin lafuma. Annenkov’s satirical and slightly racy Cubist designs for this French novel set in California
are reminiscent of George Grosz’s work. André Nepveu (1881-1959) was a Parisian throat doctor who wrote poetry and novels of social
criticism under the pseudonym “Luc Durtain.”
$1200 – $1800
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Lot 8. [BAKST, Léon [Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg] (1866-1924)].
Leon Bakst. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, [1927]. 42 pp. 4to (335 x 260 mm). With 19 pochoir plates and 29 tipped-in color plates. Introduction
by Carl Einstein. Vellum-backed gilt decorated brown boards. Condition: boards and spine lightly rubbed.
number 328 of 330 copies. Bakst was the most influential of the artists associated with Sergei Diaghliev’s Ballets Russes. Carl
Einstein (1885-1940) is best known as the author of the seminal Expressionist novel Bebuquin (1912).
$5000 – $8000
Lot 9. [BAKST, Léon [Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg] (1866-1924)].
Feya kukol. La Fée des poupées [The Doll Fairy]. Complete set of 12 postcards,
printed in colors, most heightened with gilt, designed by L. Bakst with the
original envelope and the folded descriptive leaf in Russian and French;
issued to benefit the St. Evgenya Red Cross Society and lithographed in
color by A. Ilin, St. Petersburg, 1904. Each card 140 x 95 mm. Condition:
cards in excellent condition, the descriptive leaf with split at fold, the
envelope holed and torn with slight loss.
rare complete set of postcards in the original envelope. Bakst was
the most important costume designer of his generation. He helped found
the Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] group with Sergei Diaghilev and Alexandre
Benois in 1898. He established himself as a major costume designer with
Josef Bayer’s ballet Feya kukol at the Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg in
February 1903. Benois thought they were Bakst’s indisputable masterpiece.
But it was for his contribution to Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes beginning in
1909 that Bakst earned his greatest fame. (12)
$1500 – $2000
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Lot 10. BALMONT, Konstantin Dmitrievich (1867-1942).
Zvenya [The Link]. Moscow: “Skorpion,” 1913. 283 pp. 8vo (190 x 125 mm). Original decorated pale green wrappers. Condition: wrappers
soiled, backstrip chipped and cracked; fragile.
[With:] Zarevo zor [Glow of Twilight]. Moscow: Grif, 1914. Second edition. 169 pp. Small 8vo (175 x 110 mm). Designed by V. M. Sablin.
Original two-color decorated tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers lightly spotted, backstrip with some minor chipping and discoloration;
small tape repair to verso of back wrapper.
[And:] Belyi zodyii [White Architect]. St. Petersburg: “Sirin,” 1914. 332 pp. Folio (250 x 190 mm). Original light blue wrappers. Condition:
wrappers soiled and creased; splits at head and tail of backstrip, small rubber stamps to verso of wrappers.
three collections of poetry by the imporant russian symbolist. He also translated Shelley, Ibsen, Whitman, and Armenian poetry.
His free translation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells” served as the basis for Rachmaninoff ’s choral symphony, Op. 35. Both Prokofiev and
Stravinsky set his poetry to music. As an anti-tsarist, he at first supported the Russian Revolution but not the Bolsheviks. He emigrated to
Germany and settled in France where he died in poverty. (3)
$2000 – $3000
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Lot 11. BALTRUSHAITIS, Jurgis Kazimirovich (1873-1944).
Zemnyya stupeni. Elegii, pesni, poemy [Earthly Stages. Elegies, Songs and Poems]. Moscow: “Skorpion,” 1911. 216 pp. 8vo (195 x 150 mm). Original
decorated wrappers. Condition: wrappers soiled with minor chipping to edges; backstrip chipped with some loss.
[With:] Gornaya tropa. Vtoraya kniga stikhov [Mountain Path. Second Book of Poetry]. Moscow: “Skorpion,” 1912. 183 pp. 8vo (200 x 155 mm).
Original wrappers. Condition: wrappers thumbsoiled, backstrip slightly chipped with tape repairs to head and tail.
early works by the silver age poet. Baltrushaitis was a Lithuanian Symbolist poet who wrote primarily in Russian. His circle included
Konstantin Balmont, Aleksandr Blok, Valerii Briusov and Vyacheslav Ivanov. He died in Paris. (2)
$2000 – $3000
Lot 12. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-1898) and Mikhail Alekseevich KUZMIN (1872-1936) (translator).
Obri Berdslei. Izbranye pisunki [Aubrey Beardsley: Selected Drawings]. Moscow: Skorpion, 1912. 204 pp. Square 8vo (225 x 170 mm). + 30 plates.
Contemporary gilt-lettered brown boards. Condition: boards rubbed with minor staining, corners bumped; rubber stamp and pen notations
to endpaper, rear joint cracked.
first edition of an important early russian monograph on the great english illustrator. Beardsley’s influence on Russian
artists of the Silver Age is inestimable. In addition to a fine selection of the drawings, this book contains translations of Robert Ross’ and
Arthur Simmons’ memoirs of the artist, Beardsley’s “Venus and Tannhauser,” some of his letters, appreciations by Joseph Pennell and Vittorio
Pika and a bibliography of the published work. Kuzmin translated Beardsley’s poems “The Three Musicians” and “The Ballad of a Barber”
into Russian for this collection.
$1000 – $1500
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Lot 13. BELENSON, Aleksandr (editor).
Strelets. Sbornik pervyi [The Archer. First Collection]. St. Petersburg:
[“Strelets”], 1915. Volume 1. 216 pp. 8vo (235 x 176 mm). Rebound
in tan cloth with the original front wrapper designed by Nikolai
Kulbin affixed to the new binding. Condition: covers and label lightly
thumbsoiled, upper corner of title page clipped with no loss of text;
rear wrapper absent.
one of 5000 copies. rare first volume of this famous futurist
anthology. With contributions by Aleksandr Blok, David Burliuk,
Vasilii Kamenskii, Velemir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Kuzmin, Benedikt
Livshits, Artur Lure, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Aleksei Remizov,
Fedor Sologub and others. Lithographs on blue paper by David
Burliuk, Nikolai Kulbin, Aristarkh Lentulov, Wyndham Lewis,
Olga Rozanova, Mariya Sinyakova and Mikhail Vrubel. The early
Futurist group “Gylaea” [Hylaea] joined forces with the Symbolists,
Acmeists, and other unaffiliated artists to issue this first anthology in
1915. It created a sensation. MoMA 114; Borovkov p. 10.
$600 – $800
Lot 14. BELENSON, Aleksandr (editor).
Strelets. Tretii i poslednii [The Archer. Third and Final Collection]. St.
Petersburg: [“Strelets”], 1922. Volume 3. 184 pp. 8vo (286 x 193
mm). With 14 plates (some in color) designed by Natan Altman,
Iurii Annenkov, Lev Bruni, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Nikolai Kulbin,
Vladimir Lebedev, Ivan Puni ( Jean Pougny), Marc Chagall; and
printer’s mark by David Burliuk. Original decorated wrappers.
Condition: wrappers with intermittent staining, chipping to
extremities, back detached but present; repairs to backstrip and
front wrapper.
out-of-series copy from an edition of 300. final and most
beautiful volume of this rare influential russian futurist
anthology. With contributions by Fedor Sologub, Mikhail
Kuzmin, Vasily Rozanov, Anna Akhmatova, Lev Karsavin, Erich
Gollerbakh, Artur Lure and others. Annenkov also provided the
textual decorations. MoMA 447; Getty 756; BM 493; NYPL 291.
$1500 – $2500
Lot 15. BELSKII, Leonid Petrovich (translator).
Kalevala. Finskii narodnyi epos [The Kalevala. The Finnish Folk Epic]. Moscow and Leningrad: Academia, 1933. 331 pp. 8vo (250 x 185 mm).
Illustrated by Tatyana Glebova, Alisa Poret, Mikhail Tsibasov, and other students of Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov. Original violet cloth, blocked
with a decorative design in red and purple, dust jacket. Condition: slight cockling to first and last few leaves; dust-jacket slightly discolored and
with small tears and chips to extremities.
important illustrated book by the filonov school in the rare dust jacket. Russian translation of the Finnish national folk epic.
Filonov (1883-1941) was an original who drew idelogical hostility from his colleagues. He was eventually expelled from the Academy of
Arts in 1927 for “corrupting his colleagues with his paintings.” Nevertheless he inspired a new generation of Soviet artists. MoMA 1023.
$3000 – $4000
Lot 16. BELYI, Andrei [Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev] (1880-1934).
Steinerian schema of perception. c. 1918. Ink, crayon and pencil on ruled paper (360 x 450 mm). Framed.
a fascinating diagrammatical sketch whereby Belyi outlines the concept of intuition and free will in relation to the Anthroposophical
teachings of Rudolf Steiner. It was in his later years that Belyi came under the influence of Anthroposophy and became a personal friend
of Steiner’s. Anthroposophy, as an offshoot of Theosophy, advocated for the theory and practice of nonlinear exposition, simultaneity,
essentialism, and intuitive knowledge; devices that eventually helped usher in such modernist breakthroughs as sound poetry, abstract
painting and formalist theories in Russia and elsewhere A remarkable document from the author of Petersburg; one of the 20th century’s
most important novels that is often cited as an uncanny precursor to Joyce’s Ulysses.
$7000 – $10000
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Lot 17. BEM, Elizaveta Merkurevna (1843-1914) and
Ivan Yakovlevich BILIBIN (1876-1942) (illustrators).
Azbuka [An Alphabet]. Paris: I. S. Lapina, [1913]. 2nd part. 42 pp.
Large folio (400 x 310 mm). With 17 tipped-in color plates after
E. Bem and vignettes by N. Ivanov. Rebound in cloth-backed gray
boards with the original gilt decorated gray wrappers. Rebound
with Volga. Petrograd: I. I. Bilibina, 1904. 16 pp. Large Folio (400
x 310). Illustrated with color lithographs after I. Ya. Bilibin. Original
decorated wrappers bound in. Condition: abrasions to back cover;
occasional light spotting and thumbsoiling internally.
two of the most beautiful russian picture books bound
together. Bem began her career as one of the earliest Russian
women children’s book illustrators with studies of local child life all
in silhouettes. The elaborate watercolors for Azbuka comprise her
most ambitious work. Again, she used child models in these sensitive,
complex compositions and drew on Russian folk art and folklore for
details. Bilibin’s Volga is one of the magnificent publications of the
Silver Age. He drew on his vast knowledge of ancient Russian folk
art for costumes, architecture and interiors in the style and content
of these extraordinary color lithographs.
$800 – $1200
Lot 18. BENOIS, Alexandre [Aleksanr Nikolaevich Benua]
(1870-1960) and Rene BOYLESVE (1867-1926).
La Leçon d’Amour dans un Parc. Brussels: Éditions du Nord, 1927.
Small square 8vo (205 x 150 mm). Half-title. Printed in light brown
and black. 4 plates and 20 head-pieces colored using the pochoir
process, all after Benois. Original wrappers, printed in light brown
and black. Condition: covers somewhat discolored, small splits to
head and foot of backstrip.
limited edition of 1076 copies, this one of 40 copies ‘hors
commerce” printed on “vélin pur esparto” paper numbered from I to
XL, this copy number II. According to the colophon, this title is the
third in the “Les Gloires Littéraires” series.
$600 – $800
Lot 19. BENOIS, Alexandre [Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benua] (1870-1960) (illustrator).
Pikovaya dama [Queen of Spades]. [St. Petersburg: R. Golike and A. Vilborg, 1911]. 68 pp. Folio (300 x 240 mm). Illustrated in color by
A. Benois. Publisher’s gilt stamped cream colored boards with original glassine wrappers (defective). Condition: hinges cracked, spine lightly
tanned, corners bumped, slight toning to boards.
Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece based on Pushkin’s Pikovaya dama was Benois’ favorite opera. Although he provided some of the décor for a 1903
production, it was not until May 1921 that Benois produced and adapted Modest Ilich Tchaikovsky’s libretto and designed all the sets and
the costumes for the State Theater for Opera and Ballet in Petrograd. These illustrations dating from a decade before obviously influenced
the 1921 production.
$1500 – $2000
Lot 20. BENOIS, Alexandre [Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benua] (1870-1960).
Russkaya shkola zhivopisi [The Russian School of Painting ]. St. Petersburg: Golike and Vilborg, 1904. 96 pp. Large folio (410 x 330 mm). 101
tipped-in color plates and photogravures of Russian art. 10 parts unbound (as issued) within original decorated white portfolio designed by
A. Benois with a front wrapper of volume I and complete wrapper for volume II designed by Evgenii Evgenevich Lansere. Condition: tears to
margins, some toning; wrappers with repairs to margins, portfolio somewhat soiled.
signed by the author in ink on the title page, explaining that he began the project in 1903 but did not complete it until
1905. A magnificently produced survey of Russian art by the great Silver Age painter. Msistlav Valeryanov Dubuzhinsky provided the elegant
title page design. Alfred A. Knopf published an English translation by Abraham Yarmolinsky in 1916 but not in so sumptuous a format.
$6000 – $8000
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Lot 21. BENOIS, Alexandre
[Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benua] (1870-1960).
Igrushki [Toys]. A collection of 10 postcards of Russian folk toys,
issued to benefit the St. Evgenya Red Cross Society and lithographed
in color by N. Kadushin, St. Petersburg, 1905. Each 140 x 95 mm.
Condition: unused postcards with minor wear and soiling; one
creased slightly.
Among his many other interests, Benois was a passionate collector
of hand-made folk toys. He began buying them in the 1890s and
soon became one of the leading experts in the field. Bakst studied
Benois’ toys when he was working on his costume designs for the
1903 ballet Feya kukol [The Doll Fairy]. (10)
$1200 – $1800
Lot 22. BILIBIN, Ivan Yakovlevich (1876-1942) (illustrator).
Skazki [Fairy Tales]. [St. Petersburg]: Ekspeditsiya zagotovleniya
gosudarstvennykh bumag, 1901-1903. 4 volumes: Skazka ob Ivane
Tsareviche, Zhar-ptitse i o serom volke [The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the
Fire Bird and the Grey Wolf]; Tsarevna Lyagushka [The Frog Princess];
Sestritsa Alenushka i bratetse Ivanushka; Belaya utochka [Little Sister
Alena and Little Brother Ivan; and The Little White Duck]; and Marya
Morevna. Chromolithographs after I. Ya. Bilibin. Folio (320 x 255
mm). Two with original decorated wrappers; two bound in one
volume in cloth-backed boards. Condition: discolored, soiled and
some foxing; one book rebacked with pages loose.
I. Ya. Bilibin established his reputation as the greatest illustrator of
Russian fairy tales with this elegant series. The environment he created
for these beautifully printed picture books derived from artist’s vast
knowledge of old provincial Russian architecture and folk arts. (4)
$1000 – $1500
Lot 23. BRODSKY, Joseph
[Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodskii] (1940-1996).
Stikhotvoreniya i poemy [Verses and Poems]. Washington, D.C.: Inter-
Language Literary Associates, 1965. 8vo (195 x 140 mm). Original
gray wrappers. Condition: backstrip lightly faded; minor thumbsoiling
to wrappers with tape residue to front.
the 1987 nobel prize winner’s collection of poems was
published abroad after he was sentenced to five years
of hard labor for “social parasitism” in 1964. This edition
is rumored to have been financed by the CIA. He was exiled from
the Soviet Union in 1972 and was later named poet laureate of the
United States in 1991.
$700 – $1000
Lot 24. BURLIUK, David (1882-1967) [editor].
Color and Rhyme. 38 issues (of 66 published): numbers 17-24, 26, 29-31, 33-53, 55-57, 60 and 66. Various sizes. In Russian and English.
Numbers 31, 33, 34, and 37-41 are bound separately in green cloth and includes a Burliuk letter as a pastedown on front endpaper addressed
to Boris Viktorovich Smerenskii to whom this volume is also inscribed. This volume also includes an original inlaid graphic cover and
booklets for 1930 Burliuk exhibit at the Roerich Museum and a 1933 exhibit at the Academy of Allied Arts, both in New York.
Numbers 49, 55 and 60 inscribed to B. Smerenskii with owner’s bookplates and stamp on front free endpapers; Number 53 with editorial
corrections. Number 66 was the final issue and was “Published in honor of poet-artist David Burliuk by Mary Burliuk” subsequent to his
death in 1967. Numbers 31 and 49 are devoted to articles and reminiscences of Mayakovsky. Condition: covers partially detached on a few
issues, occasional light spotting and thumbsoiling.
an astonishing collection that spans over twenty years (1947-1970) from the perspective of the great ukrainian artist
as an émigré in new york. News clippings, exhibit announcements, letters to the editor, art reviews, travel pieces, editorials, and all manner
of art-related commentary cobbled together in a compelling and engaging fashion. Illustrated throughout.
From 1930 to 1966 Burliuk and his wife, Marussia, published Color & Rhyme, primarily concerned with charting Burliuk’s activities. He was
the co-founder of the Futurist movement in Russia and a founding member in Germany of both Der Blaue Reiter and Der Sturm. He moved
to the United States in 1922, and settled in New York. Besides being her husband’s muse (evidenced by the numerous portraits Burliuk
composed of her), Marussia Burliuk acted as publisher and occasional contributor to this seminal avant-garde arts periodical. (38)
$5000 – $8000
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Lot 25. [BURLIUK, David (1882-1967)] and
Katherine Sophie DREIER (1877-1952).
Burliuk. New York: Société Anonyme and Color and Rhyme, 1944.
182 pp. 4to (260 x 185 mm). 53 black and white illustrations by
Burliuk selected by the author and Marcel Duchamp. Publisher’s
red cloth, spine and front cover gilt stamped. Condition: spine faded,
without dust jacket.
presentation copy. Warmly inscribed to the Kendalls on front
free endpaper and dated June 8th 1946. An important work on the
Ukranian artist David Burliuk that examines his work in Russia, and
subsequent career in the United States after emigrating in 1922.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 26. BURLIUK, David (1882-1967),
Sergei TRETYAKOV (1892-1937), Sergei RAFALOVICH and
Tatyana TOLSTAYA-VECHORKA.
Buka russkoi literatury [The Bogeyman of Russian Literature]. Moscow:
[41°], 1923. 48 pp. 8vo (190 x 145 mm). Cover typography by
Nagorskaya and Constructivist lithographs by Gustav Klutsis and
Ivan Kliun. Original wrappers printed in red and black. Condition:
wrappers detached with tears at fold with slight loss and occasional
soiling; internally leaves slightly toned at edges else clean.
one of 2000 copies. Unique collection of tributes by Sergei
Tretyakov, David Burliuk, T. Tolstaya and S. Rafalovich to the
enormously influential and protean experimental Russian poet
and theorist Aleksei Kruchenykh. Burliuk eventually settled in
the United States, but Tretyakov was arrested and executed by the
Soviets in 1937. MoMA 462.
$2000 – $3000
Lot 27. CHALIAPIN, Feodor Ivanovich (1873-1938).
Portrait of Chaliapin. Gelatin silver print on matte doubleweight paper,
trimmed to the edge, blindstamped Leidenberg Studio. Signed and
inscribed to Mikhail Kokushkin, Paris 1931. 295 x 235 mm.
exceptional signed photograph of the legendary russian
opera singer. Chaliapin may well have been the greatest opera
singer of the twentieth century. He was Rachmanioff ’s protégé and
Maxim Gorky helped him write his autobiography.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 28. CHOUKHAEFF, Vassili (1887-1973) and
Alfred de MUSSET (1810-1857).
Les Deux Maîtresses. Paris: Éditions de la Pléiade, J. Schiffrin1928.
Small 4to (243 x 180 mm). Title in blue and black. Hand-colored
frontispiece and 8 plates, 10 hand-colored head-pieces, 9 uncolored
tail-pieces, 10 uncolored initials, all after Choukhaeff. Original
paper wrappers, author, title and decorative vignette on the upper
cover, author, title and date on the backstrip, glassine. Condition: pp.
91-94 loosely inserted, light toning to margins. Limited edition of
378 copies, this copy number VII, one of five on “Japon Impérial”
numbered from VI to X, “hors série et non mis dans la commerce.”
[With:] V. CHOUKHAEFF - Charles MAURRAS Charles (1868-
1952). L’Anthrophage conte moral. [N.p.:] Les Éditions Lapina, [1930].
Small square 8vo (190 x 140 mm). Printed in red and black, half-title.
Etched portrait of the author by Ed. Chimot, 1 folding of the author’s
manuscript of the first to pages of text, 8 tinted lithographic plates
by Choukaeff, occasional decorative initials printed in red. Original
light brown wrappers, printed in red and black, glassine, largely
unopened, card slipcase. Condition: slight discoloration to backstrip,
slipcase rubbed and scuffed. Limited edition of 1195 copies, this
copy number 301, one of 1000 copies on “vergé de Rives B.F.K.”
numbered from 101 to 1100. The limitation leaf notes that this is the
12th and last in a series of works published under the umbrella title
‘la Collection “Les Panathénées.”’ (2)
$1000 – $1500
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Lot 29. CHEKHOV, Anton (1860-1904).
Povesty i razskazy [Stories and Tales]. Moscow: E. F. Tsipelson, 1894. 287 pp. 8vo (190 x 130 mm). Publisher’s navy
blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt and decoratively stamped in black, rear board blind stamped in
floral motif. Condition: slight rubbing to spine edges and extremties, corners bumped, dampstain at lower left on
front; neat repairs at gutters to pp. 279-282. Provenance: Semen Ilich Bychkov.
exceptional signed presentation copy of an important collection of chekhov’s short stories.
Bychkov worked as a waiter at the Grand Hotel in Moscow where Chekhov stayed. “I’d been a factory worker, a yard
man, worked in a puppet theatre, in pantomime and done everything,” Bychkov recalled. “Of all the people staying
at the hotel only Anton Chekhov spoke to me simply, man-to-man, without pride, with none of that looking down
on you. And he gave me his writings, I started reading and at that minute a new light illuminated me…I loved him
fervently with all my soul” (Rayfield p. 391). Bychkov asked the writer to be godfather to his child and the writer accepted.
Chekhov warmly inscribed this copy in fond memory to Bychkov on March 25, 1897. The collection contains
several of the author’s best known short stories: “Babe tsarstvo” [“A Woman’s Kingdom”], ”Poprygunya” [“The
Grasshopper”], “Chernyi monakh” [“The Black Monk”], “V ssylke” [“In Exile”], “Skripa Rotshilda” [“Rothschild’s
Fiddle”] and “Student” [“The Student”]. See Literaturnoe nasledstvo: Chekhov p. 268.
$20000 – $30000
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Lot 30. CHUKOVSKY, Kornei [Nikolai Vasilievich Korneichukov] (1882-1969).
Collection of four books of literary criticism by the famous Russian children’s poet. Comprising: Leonid Andreev bolshoi i malenkii [Leonid Andreev Great
and Small]. St. Petersburg: “Izdatelskoe Biuro,” 1908. 136 pp. 8vo (215 x 145 mm). Rebound in half cloth over marbled boards. Condition:
rear hinge cracked, original wrappers absent.
Before he became a major children’s book writer, Chukovsky was an influential literary critic. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev (1871-1919) is
best remembered for his play He Who Gets Slapped (1915).
[With:] Ot Ckehova do nashikh dnei [From Chekhov to Our Day]. St. Petersburg: “Izdatelskoe Biuro,” 1908. 244 pp. Rebound in black cloth
with the original decorated wrappers bound in. Condition: wrappers repaired with slight thumbsoiling and small chip to back at lower corner.
expanded second edition with a new preface. Essays on contemporary Russian writers including Chekhov, Balmont, Blok and Gorky.
Chukovsky’s essay on novelist Mikhail Artsybashev so offended him that he challenged Chukovsky to a duel.
[And:] I. Nat Pinkerton i sovrennaya literatura. II. “Kuda my prishli?”[I. Nat Pinkerton and Contemporary Literature. II. “Where Are We Now?”].
Moscow: “Sovremennoe Tvorchestvo,” 1910. 120 pp. 8vo (195 x 140 mm). Original tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers with some spotting
and soiling, backstrip partially detached with slight chipping at middle, head and tail. The first essay discusses detective stories; the second is
a survey of Russian literature in the year 1909.
[And:] Litsa i maski [Faces and Masks]. St. Petersburg: “Shipovnik,” [1914]. 355 pp. 8vo (215 x 155 mm). Rebound in rebacked dark blue
boards with the original tan wrappers bound in. Condition: spotting to wrappers; bookseller stamp and pen markings to rear endpaper.
Collection of essays on various literary subjects including Andreev, Oscar Wilde, the Russian Futurists, Jack London, Zaida Gippius, Aleksei
Tolstoi and Boris Zaitsev. The relatively brief essay on the language of children (pp. 308-328) evolved over the years into Chukovsky’s
seminal study Ot dvukh do pyati [From Two to Five] (1933). (4)
$2000 – $3000
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Lot 31. CHUKOVSKY, Kornei [Nikolai Vasilievich Korneichukov] (1882-1969) and
Vladimir Mikhailovich KONASHEVICH (1888-1963) (illustrator).
Mukha Tsokotukha [The Buzzing Fly]. Leningrad and Moscow: OGIZ, 1933. 16 pp. Square 8vo (225 x 175 mm). Illustrated by V. Konashevich.
Original color lithographed decorated wrappers designed by Konashevich. Condition: wrappers neatly repaired on verso at fold.
first edition with present illustrations. Chukovsky called Mukha Tsokotukha “my merriest book, the most musical, the most
well-rounded.” When a bureaucrat protested that “the little mosquito is nothing but a prince in disguise, and the fly a princess in disguise,”
Chukovsky lost his temper and replied, “We might as well say that Karl Marx is a disguised prince, too!” A late member of the Mir iskusstva
[World of Art] group, Konashevich upheld the high standards of their graphic work in his picture books.
[With:] VVEDENSKII, Aleksandr Ivanovich (1904-1941). Letnyaya knizhka [A Book of Spring ]. [Leningrad]: GIZ, 1929. 8 pp. Square 4to
(200 x 145 mm). Color lithographs by A[lisa] Poret. Original color lithographed wrappers designed by Poret. Condition: light staining to
wrappers, minor tape repairs, ink marks on first and end leaves not affecting text. Vvedensky helped organize with Daniil Kharms the avantgarde
group OBERIU. Banned from publishing their adult work, they wrote children’s books. Vvedensky was arrested in 1941 on a charge of
treason and died of dysentery on his way to a labor camp. A. Poret (1902-1984) was a student of the artist Pavel Filonov and associated with
OBERIU. She was also a prolific children’s book illustrator.
[And:] ZOSCHENKO, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895-1958). Samoe glavnoe [The Most Important]. Moscow and Leningrad: Detizdat, 1940.
43 pp. Square 8vo (225 x 170 mm). Illustrated by A. Uspenskii. A rare collection of children’s stories by the famous Russian satirist. Condition:
wrappers with intermittent light soiling.(3)
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$500 – $800
Lot 32. DANKO, Elena Yakovlevna (1898–1942) and
Nikolai Fedorovich LAPSHIN (1891-1942) (illustrator).
Kitaiskii sekret [The Chinese Secret]. Leningrad: OGIZ, 1934.
200 pp. 8vo (195 x 135 mm). Illustrated by Nikolai Lapshin.
Original embossed blue cloth in the original decorated dust
jacket. Condition: minor staining to front cover and spine; jacket
with some chipping at spine and fold extremities not affecting
lettering, rear panel with closed tear repaired on verso.
first edition of this famous history of porcelain in
the rare dust jacket. The sisters Elena and Natalya Danko
(1892-1942) helped revive the art of Russian porcelain at the
State Porcelain Factory in Leningrad after the Revolution. Elena
described the factory’s wares as “news from a radiant future.”
Natalya modeled the figures and Elena painted them. Among
the major works they produced at the Lomonosov State
Porcelain Factory in Leningrad were their famous propaganda
chess set of the Reds vs the Whites and porcelain figurines of
the legendary ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and poet Anna
Akhmatova. Kitaiskii sekret is Elena Danko’s best known book.
During World War II (“The Great Patriotic War”) while fleeing
blockaded Leningrad for Irbet in the Urals where the porcelain
factory was temporarily moved, both women were killed. A
former student of Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, Nikolai Fodorevich
Lapshin (1888-1942) was one of the most important
Soviet children’s book illustators. He designed for the State
Porcelain Factory when the Dankos were also working there.
The German-born critic Helmutt Lehmann-Haupt thought
Lapshin’s illustrations were “informing, witty, and very flexible.”
$500 – $800
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Lot 33. [DOBUZHINSKY, Mstislav Valerianovich
(1875-1957)].
Risunki M. Dobuzhinskogo [M. Dobuzhinsky’s Drawings]. Moscow
and Petrograd: GIZ, 1923. 104 pp. Folio (275 x 210 mm). By
Erikh Fedorovich Gollerbakh. Illustrated by M. Dobuzhinsky
with ornamental initials designed by Sergei Chekhonin. Original
decorated wrappers designed by Dobuzhinsky. Condition: wrappers
slightly discolored, partially split; backstrip with some chipping and
minor repairs. Provenance: Fekula 6383.
early monograph of the famous silver age artist. Known
primarily for his book and magazine illustrations and set and
costume designs, Dobuzhinsky here demonstrates his versatilty
in landscapes, cityscapes, interiors and portraits. After the Russian
Revolution, he left for Lithuania where he was naturalized in 1924.
He eventually emigrated to Great Britain and settled in the United
States where he continued to design for the theater. Not in MoMA.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 34. DOBUZHINSKY, Msistlav Valeryanov
(1875-1957). (illustrator).
Svinopas. Skazka Andersena. [The Swineherd. Andersen’s Fairy Tale].
[Berlin and Petrograd]: Z. I. Grzhebin, 1922. 14 pp. Folio (300 x 230
mm). By Hans Christian Andersen. Original silver decorated blue
papered boards. Condition: joints tender; backstrip faded with slight
chipping at extremities, covers slightly rubbed and faded.
one of 2000 copies. first edition of this classic silver age
interpretation of the andersen fairy tale. Dobuzhinsky was
one of the great graphic artists of the Mir iskusstva [World of Art]
group in St. Petersburg. He was also Vladimir Nabokov’s drawing
teacher. Having served as a medical orderly on the Polish and
Galician fronts during World War I, he began illustrating Svinopas as
a diversion on his return to Petrograd in 1917. The story was one of
his family’s favorite fairy tales; a few years earlier, his friend Georgii
Narbut designed the sets and costumes for a play based on the story
for Dobuzhinsky’s children. Dobuzhinsky entered these slightly
satirical watercolors in one of the last of the Mir iskusstva exhibitions.
This edition was created for the “Parus” publishing company, but
the Russian Revolution intervened and the book was not published
until 1922 by Z. I. Grzhebin in Berlin and Petrograd. Svinopas with
its lithe line drawings heightened with watercolor is considered to be
Dobuzhinsky’s masterpiece. MoMA 376.
$600 – $800
Lot 35. DUDIN, S. M. and A. F. Tkachenko.
Skazki starukhi-govorukhi o zhivotnykh [An Old Woman Storyteller’s
Tales about Animals]. St. Petersburg: A. F. Devrien, [1907]. 3 volumes,
18 pp each. Folio (265 x 210 mm each). Printed by R. Golike and
A. Vilborg, St. Petersburg. Illustrated in color and black and white
by Dudin and Tkachenko. Original color lithographed maroon
wrappers. Condition: some spotting and spoiling to wrappers;
rubbed at folds.
three collections of russian fairy tales. Comprising:
“Lisichka-sestrichka i volk” and “Kot, kozel i baran” [“The Little Fox
Sister and the Wolf” and “The Cat, the the Billy Goat and the Ram”] ;
“Skazka o schuk zubastoi,” “Petukh, kot i barran” and zayasts i lyagushka”
[“The Tale of the Sharp-Toothed Pike,” “The Cock, the Cat and the Ram”
and “The Hare and the Frog”]; and “Zimove zverei,” “Staraya khleb-sol
zabyvaetsya” and “Vorona i rak” [“The Beasts’ Winter Shed,” “The Old
Forgetful Hospitality” and “The Crow and the Crawfish”]. (3)
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$600 – $800
Lot 36. EFROS, Abram [Markovich] (1888-1954).
Eroticheskie soneti [Erotic Sonnets]. Moscow: [“Mospoligraf ”], 1922.
45 pp. 8vo (205 x 150 mm). Original tan wrappers. Condition:
wrappers lightly thumbsoiled, minor chipping to edges; bookplate
on verso of rear wrapper.
rare edition of soviet erotic poetry. number 6 of 260
numbered copies. Efros was a prominent Soviet art critic, poet and
translator. He was also curator of the picture gallery of the Pushkin
Museum in Moscow and editor-in-chief of Khutozhestvennaya zhizin
[Artistic Life] published by Narkompros. Somehow he found time
to write and publish these 25 erotic poems. This book seems not to
have been published in Russia again until 1993.
$2000 – $3000
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Lot 37. ERENBURG, Ilya Grigorevich [Ilia Ehrenburg] (1891-1967).
Aktsionernoe obschestvo “Merkiur de Riussi” [The Joint Stock Company “Merkiur of Russia”]. [Moscow]: “Puchina,” 1925. 144 pp. Small 8vo
(180 x 125 mm). Original two-color Constructivist wrappers. Condition: browned; some soiling to covers, old creasing to upper cover. one
of 5000 copies.
[With:] Belyi ugol ili slezy vertera [White Coal or Werther’s Tears]. Leningrad, Priboi, 1928. 260 pp. 8vo (200 x 135 mm). Original tan wrappers.
Condition: some soiling to wrappers, backstrip torn with loss, splits to joints.
[And:] Viza vremeni [Time’s Visa]. Leningrad: Izdatelstvo Pisatelei, [1925]. Second edition enlarged. 423 pp. 8vo (195 x 140 mm). Original
blue cloth, titled in black on upper cover and black and blind on spine, dust jacket. Condition: dust-jacket torn with loss. (3)
$1200 – $1800
Lot 38. ERENBURG, Ilya Grigorevich [Ilia Ehrenburg] (1891-1967).
Molitva o Rossii [A Prayer for Russia]. [Moscow: “Severnye Dni”], 1918. 46 pp. 8vo 175 x 135 mm). Original tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers
soiled, extremities slightly frayed. Provenance: Andrei Sobol.
presentation copy of the first edition inscribed to the poet’s friend, the writer andrei sobol. The poem “Sudnyi den”
[“Judgment Day,” pp. 15-20] describes how the Red soldiers stop to rape a woman while storming the Winter Palace. Vladimir Mayakovsky
called the book “tiresome prose printed in verses” written by “a frightened intellectual.” Ehrenburg’s anti-Bolshevik writings forced him to
leave Moscow for his hometown Kiev where he met Sobol. Ehrenburg admitted in 1921 that Molitva o Rossii was “artistically weak and
ideologically impotent.”
$3000 – $5000
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Lot 39. ERENBURG, Ilya Grigorevich [Ilia Ehrenburg] (1891-1967).
Detskoe [For Children]. [Paris: n. p., 1914]. 23 pp. 12mo (130 x 105 mm). Original wrappers designed by E. Shiryaev. Condition: wrappers
creased, some chipping at fold.
[With]: Poetry frantsii 1870-1913 [French Poetry from 1870 to 19123]. Paris: “Gelikon,” 1914. 144 pp. Small 4to (220 x 185 mm). Rebound in
black cloth with the original lettered tan wrappers bound in. Condition: minor wear to wrappers.
[And:] Ogon [Fire]. [Gomel:] “Veka i Dni,” 1919. 40 pp. 8vo (170 x 135 mm). Condition: lacking wrappers.
three early works by the famous modern russian writer. Remembered primarily as a novelist and journalist, Ehrenburg was also a
prolific poet. He took the title of Ogon from Luke 12:49 (“I am come to send fire on the earth”) and published the book in the Belarussian
town of Gomel. He spent considerable time in Paris where he met many of the important writers and artists of the period. Some of the
French poets he translated into Russian in Poetry frantsii are Guillaume Apollinaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine and
oddly the Italian Futurist Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti. (3)
$1500 – $2500
Lot 40. ERENBURG, Ilya Grigorevich (1891-1967) and El [Lazar Markovich] LISSITZKY (1890-1941) (illustrator).
Shest povesti o legkikh kontsakh [Six Tales With Easy Endings]. Moscow-Berlin: Gelikon, 1922. 164 pp. 8vo (192 x 125 mm). Original
Constructivist cover design and 6 illustrations by El Lissitzky. Original printed paper wrappers. Condition: minor soiling to wrappers,
occasional light chipping to leaf edges, small split at head of backstrip, institutional stamp on title page.
an important and engaging collaboration. Ehrenburg’s witty and incisive approach to human nature is demonstrated in these
tales that contain universal applications beyond that of the author’s Moscow/Berlin milieu. Lissitzky’s drawings and typography reveal
Constructivist principles of dynamism and Suprematist experiments through spatial tension. One of several successful collaborations
between the author and the artist. MoMA 408.
$1500 – $2500
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Lot 41. ERENBURG, Ilya Grigorevich [Ilia Ehrenburg] (1891-1967) and Fernand LÉGER (1881-1956) (illustrator).
A vse-taki ona vertitsya [And All the Same the World Goes Round]. Moscow and Berlin: “Gelikon,” 1922. 142 pp. 8vo (220 x 160 mm). Illustrated
with photogravures and line illustrations by F. Léger and others. Original decorated wrappers designed by F. Léger. Condition: front wrapper
and first two leaves clipped at bottom corner, back wrapper detached but present.
rare treatise on contemporary avant-garde art. Among the artists the Russian critic considers are Léger, Lipchitz, Lissitzky, Picasso,
Rodchencko, Van Doesburg and even Charlie Chaplin. With Cubist drawings by Léger. The book is also noteworthy for its typographical
experimentation. MoMA 401.
$2000 – $3000
Lot 42. EXTER, Alexandra (1882-1949) (illustrator).
Complete set of travel books by the famous avant garde designer. Along the Coast. New York: Harper & Bros., 1939. Folio (310 x 235 mm). By Marie
Colmont. Adapted by Margaret T. Parker, Professor of Geography at Wellesley College. With lithographs in ten colors by A. Exter. Clothbacked
decorated boards designed by A. Exter. Condition: covers rubbed. first edition.
[With:] Down the River. New York: Harper & Bros., 1940. Folio (310 x 235 mm). Adapted by Margaret T. Parker, Professor of Geography
at Wellesley College. With lithographs in ten colors by A. Exter. Cloth-backed decorated boards designed by A. Exter. Condition: covers
rubbed. first edition.
[And:] Up the Mountain. New York: Harper & Bros., 1940. Folio (310 x 235 mm). Adapted by Margaret T. Parker, Professor of Geography
at Wellesley College. With lithographs in ten colors by A. Exter. Cloth-backed decorated boards designed by A. Exter with original dust
wrapper. Condition: covers rubbed; former owner’s name on half-title page; minor foxing. first edition.
American edition of three travel books for children published originally by “Père Castor” (Flammarion) in Paris: Panorama de la fleuve
(1937), Panorama de la côte (1938), and Panorama de la montaigne (1938). Alexandra Exter was a famous avant garde costume and set
designer. In 1924, she and her husband moved to Paris where she tought at at the Académie der Moderne and Fernand Léger’s Académie
d’Art Contemporain. Born in Bialystok, Russia (now Poland) to a wealthy Belarusian family, Exter was one of several émigré artists who
worked for Paul Faucher, founder of the popular “Père Castor” line of French children’s books. (3)
$500 – $800
Lot 41
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Lot 43. FEOFILAKTOV, Nikolai Petrovich (1878-1941).
66 risunkov. 66 Dessins [Sixty-Six Drawings]. Moscow: “Skorpion,” 1909. 13+pp. Oblong folio (225 x 255 mm). Index in Russian and French.
Original labeled gray wrappers. Condition: some rubbing to wrappers with miniscule loss to corners; very occasional spotting internally.
rare collection of work by the russian beardsley. Primarily a selection of decadent illustrations published from 1905 to 1908 in
the journals Sevrenye tsvety assiriiskie [Northern Flowers] and Vesy [Scales]as well as the cover for Mikhail Kuzmin’s Krylya [Wings] (1907) and
pictures for other books. These delicate, ornate and sometimes naughty sketches emulate Aubrey Beardsley’s later work. Plates 13 and 23 pay
specific tribute to the late English artist; Feofilaktov’s self-portrait too copies Beardsley’s own.
$5000 – $8000
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Lot 44. GIDE, André (1869-1951).
Immoralist. L’Immoraliste. Leningrad: “Academia,” 1927. 200 pp. Small 8vo (145 x 110 mm). Translated from the French by A. D. Radlova.
Frontispiece by Valentina Mikhailovna Khodasevich. Original gray boards with cover label designed by V. M. Khodasevich. Condition:
soiling and creasing to covers, minor chipping to extremities.
rare russian translation of the classic french novel of sexual and social liberation. This edition of L’Immoraliste (1902) was
issued under the more liberal guidelines introduced by Lenin’s NEP or the New Economic Policy. Gide’s relationship with the USSR was
complex. Although a Communist sympathizer, the Nobel Prize winner was disillusioned by the Marxist experiment when he visited Russia
as a guest of the Union of Soviet Writers. He was given an honored place at Maxim Gorky’s funeral and sat beside Stalin on several occasions,
but his unflattering Retour de l’USSR (1936) offended the Soviet authorities.
$500 – $800
Lot 45. GIPPIUS, Zinaida Nikolaevna (1869-1945) known as “Anton Krainii.”
Lituraturnyi dnevnik (1899-1907) [Literary Diary of 1899-1907]. St. Petersburg: M. V. Prizhkov, 1908. 455 pp. 8vo (185 x 25 mm).
Contemporary half morocco with the original gray wrappers bound in. Condition: boards lightly rubbed; rear wrapper absent. Provenance:
Arcadii Venyaminovich Rumanov (1876-1960).
presentation copy of the great russian woman writer’s journal signed and dated march 28, 1912. She adds that this is “my
last copy.” The self-educated author was a poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, essayist, critic and memoirist. Her journal served as
her defense of Symbolism. She was married to the Russian philosopher and writer, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii (1865-1941). Although likely
a lesbian (she dressed in masculine attire à la George Sand and took the male pseudonyms “Anton Krainii” and “Roman Arenskii”), the
adrogynous poet remained with her husband for 52 years. Her St. Petersburg salon welcomed the Symbolist poets and other intellectuals
prior to the Revolution. She and her husband emigrated to the West in 1919 and settled in Paris the next year. She always remained loyal to
her Silver Age aesthetic.
$5000 – $8000
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Lot 46. GIPPIUS, Zinaida Nikolaevna (1869-1945).
Sobranie stikhov 1889-1903 [Collected Verse from 1889 to 1903]. Moscow: “Skorpion,” 1904. 184 pp. 8vo (195 x 135 mm) Rebound in
contemporary half leather-backed boards with the original off-white wrappers bound in; spine lettered in gilt. Condition: boards slightly
rubbed, spine tail chipped with slight loss; rear wrapper absent.
[With:] Sobranie stikhov. Kniga vtoraya 1903-1909 [Collected Verse. Second Book from 1903 to 1909]. Moscow: “Musaget,” 1910. 128 pp. 8vo
(205 x 145 mm). Original tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers spotted and worn with splits at extremities, backstrip chipped with some loss.
[And:] Poslednie stikhi 1914-1918 [Final Verse from 1914 to 1918]. Petersburg: [“Nauka i Shkola”], 1918. 71 pp. 8vo (195 x 150 mm). Original
tan wrappers. Condition: backstrip partially detached.
three volumes of the famous writer’s collected verse. Gippius drew on a wide range of subjects from the morbid to the mystical,
the erotic as well the religious. Readers are still drawn to the androgynous voice of her verse. Perhaps her best-known poetry appeared in
Sobraniye stikhov of 1910. These were her only collections of poetry until she released Siyanie [Radiance] in 1938. (3)
$4000 – $6000
Lot 47. GIPPIUS, Zinaida Nikolaevna (1869-1945).
Alyi mech. Razskazy. (4-aya kniga) [The Red Sword. Fourth Book of Stories]. St. Petersburg: M. V. Pirozhkov, 1906. 480 pp. Folio (230 x 176 mm).
Original tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers soiled with apparent intermittent scorching to leaf edges, backstrip and edge of front wrapper
darkened.
[With:] Chernoe po belomu. Pyataya kniga razskazov [Black on White. Fifth Book of Stories]. St. Petersburg: M. V. Pirozhkov, 1908. 270 pp. 8vo
(190 x 130 mm). Original russet wrappers. Condition: wrappers soiled and partially split; chipping to wrapper and leaf edges. (2)
two early collections of short stories by this prominent russian woman author.
$1500 – $2500
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Lot 48. GIPPIUS, Zinaida Nikolaevna (1869-1945).
Lunnye muravi. Shestaya kniga raszkazov [Lunar Glazes. Sixth Book of Stories]. [Moscow:] “Altsion,” [1912]. 237 pp. 8vo (200 x 140 mm).
Original gray wrappers. Condition: light soiling to wrappers and endpapers.
[With:] Zelenoe koltso [The Green Ring ]. Petrograd: “Odni,” 1916. 147 pp. 8vo (205 x 140 mm). Original two-color decorated wrappers.
Condition: wrappers with some spotting and staining, backstrip slightly chipped at head and tail, cracked but intact.
[And:] Nebecnye slova i drugie razskazy [The Heavenly Word and Other Stories]. Paris: “Zemgor,” 1921. 346 pp. 8vo (185 x 120 mm). Original
white wrappers. Condition: wrappers with intermittent soiling, slight chipping to edges; backstrip chipped and worn with some loss.
[And:] Zhivye litsa [Living Faces]. Prague: “Plamya,” [1925]. 191 pp. Small 8vo (165 x 120 mm). Rebound in contemporary cloth-backed
boards with cover label. Condition: front joint cracked, shelf wear to boards, extremities rubbed; occasional soiling internally, repairs to
gutters.
four volumes demonstating gippius’ versatility as a writer. These include two books of short stories, one play (Zelenoe koltso) and
her autobiography. In her memoir Zhivye litsa, she talks about Aleksandr Blok, Valerii Briusov, Fedor Sologub and others. (4)
$2000 – $3000
Lot 48
Lot 49. GONCHAROVA, Natalya Sergeevna (1881-1962) and LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964) (illustrator).
Dvenadtsat. Skify [The Twelve. Scythians]. Paris: “Mishen, [1920]. 63 pp. 8vo (240 x 195 mm). By Aleksandr Blok. Illustrated by N. Goncharova
and M. Larionov. Original lettered wrappers. Condition: wrapper extremities slightly browned and worn.
“the first masterpiece of bolshevik letters” illustrated by two modern masters. In his most popular and controversial work,
Blok compared twelve Red Guards to the Twelve Apostles. In Skify, he invited the West “to share our peace and glowing toil” by aiding the
Bolshevik government. Although Dvenadtsat has been frequently illustrated, the most desirable interpretation is that by the two great Russian
avant-garde artists Goncharova and Larionov. Larionov’s brother had just died fighting in the Red Army when he decided to illustrate Blok’s
revolutionary poem. The French edition Les Douze appeared in April while the Russian one that added Skify came out in June and the
English edition The Twelve in November. Each contains some different pictures and those for the Russian edition are arguably the most
dramatic. Not in MoMA.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 50. GRIGORIEV, Boris Dmitrievich (1886-1939) and Sasha CHORNY [Aleksandr Mikhailovich Glikberg] (1880-1932).
Detskii ostrov [The Children’s Island]. [Danzig and Berlin]: SLOVO, [1921]. Illustrated with lithographs by B. D. Grigoriev. 159 pp. 4to (310 x
250 mm). Original cloth-backed boards with a hand-colored lithographed label designed by B. D. Grigoriev. Condition: marginal browning,
covers rubbed and waterstained with spine reglued; child’s pencil scribbling on a few pages and one page torn.
Grigoriev was a brilliant social cartoonist who also exhibited with Mir Iskusstva [The World of Art]. Some of his most delightful pictures appear
in the famous children’s book Detskii ostrov. “Line encloses all the weight of form within its angles and dispenses with all the immaterial,” he
explained. “Line is the creator’s swiftest and most immediate method of expression.” Like Vladimir Nabokov, Sasha Chorny left for Berlin in
1920 and eventually settled in Paris. The Soviets reprinted Detskii ostrov in 1928 with new illustrations. Chorny died of a heart attack while
helping his neighbors put out a fire. Not in MoMA.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 51. NO LOT
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Lot 52. GUMILEVA, Mariya (compiler).
Autograph album. 24 pp. Oblong 8vo (111 x 190 mm). Original
dark green felt backed, embossed boards; housed in custom case.
Condition: rubbing to board extremities. an extraordinary
collection of 19 autographs of many of the most
important russian poets of the early twentieth century.
With poems and drawings by Anna Akhmatova, Innokentii
Annenskii, Aleksandr Blok, Nikolai Gumilev, Mikhail Kuzmin,
Vsevolod Emilevich Meierkhold, Aleksei Remizov, Aleksei Tolstoi,
Maksimilian Voloshin and others. Gumileva compiled this
autograph book between 1908 and 1910. As the niece of the poet
Nikolai Gumilev, she had extraordinary access to the up-and-coming
literary figures of her day. They often visited her uncle in Tsarskoe
Selo (now Pushkin) and attended literary parties in his home.
Kuzmin and Gumilev were great friends and Meierkhold and Blok
signed the same page. Annenskii was director of the gymnasium
in Tsarskoe Selo that Gumilev attended. Anna Akhmotova (then
Anna Andreevna Gorenko) was his first wife. He and Voloshin later
quarreled over a woman and fought a duel. Both survived. Gumilev
wrote his poem “Oxhota” [“The Hunt”] in his niece’s album and
Kuzmin added “Protyanulo pautinu…” [“”Stretching out of the
spider’s web…”] that would be the second poem in his second
collection Osenniya ozera [Autumn Lakes] (1912). Remizov wrote
a poem as well as providing an amusing watercolor. On her return
to Tsarekoe Selo in June 1910 from her honeymoon in Paris with
Gumilev, Akhmatova entered her well-known poem “Zharko veet
veter dushnyi…” [“Hot blows the stifling wind…”] and signed it
affectionately “Dear Mariya, Aunt Anna.”
$150000 – $200000
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Lot 53. GUSMAN, Boris.
100 poetov. Literaturnye portrety [100 Poets. Literary Portraits]. [Moscow
and Leningrad: “Oktyabr,”] 1923. 292 pp. and 32 pp. bibliography
and index. 8vo (215 x 170 mm). Constructivtist design on the front
cover in red and black by M. K. Sokolov. Condition: wrappers soiled
and partially detached. Provenance: Eduard Mikhailovich Chernov.
edition of 1500 copies. With contributions by Julian Anisimov,
Nikolai Aseev, Sergei Bobrov, David Burliuk, Natan Vengrov, Sergei
Esenin, Aleksei Kruchenykh, Maikhail Kuzmin, Osip Mandelshtam,
Anatoly Mariengov, Vladimir Mayakovsky and others. Not in
MoMA.
$400 – $600
Lot 54. IVANOV, Vsevolod Viacheslavovich (1895 - 1963)
and Viktor Borisovich SHKLOVSKII (1893 - 1984).
Iprit. Roman [Mustard Gas. A Novel]. Moscow: GIZ, [1925]. 9 parts.
4to (175 x 120 mm each). Original decorated wrappers designed by
Boris Borisovich Titov housed in custom red cloth case. Condition:
wrappers slightly tanned with small ink lettering to each at front,
intermittent light chipping to folds and extremities.
rare satirical soviet serial novel, in parts. Shlovskii was
an important Russian and Soviet writer and critic and one of the
greatest defenders of Russian Formalism. He argued that art must
be independant of political ideology. He and Ivanov belonged to
the writer’s group the Serapion Brotherhood who upheld this creed.
Iprit is their parody of Soviet science fiction, involving a deadly new
gas designed for use in the Third World War. The story was issued
as a serial novel like Marietta Shaginian’s highly successful detective
story in parts Mess Mend (1923). Both Ivanov and Shklovskii had
to eventually capitulate to the Soviet demands of realistic art. B. B.
Titov (1897-1951) was a prolific book designer and illustrator who
exhibited with Klutsis, Lissitzky, Popova and Telingator. Getty 274
misattributes this cover design to Solomon Benedikt Telingator. Not
in MoMA. (9)
$1500 – $2000
Lot 55. IVANOV, Vyacheslav Ivanovich (1866-1949).
Venok sonetov [Wreath of Sonnets]. [St. Petersburg]: Apollon, [1910].
10 pp., 8vo (220 x 195mm). From the cycle “Liubov i smert [Love
and Death].” Condition: some tears and discoloring. Inscribed in red
ink by the author on the title page and dated 1920.
[With]: Nezhnaya taina [Tender Secret]. St. Petersburg: “Ory,” 1912.
122 pp. 8vo (195 x 150 mm). Original gray wrappers. Condition:
wrappers somewhat worn.
[And:] Mladenchestvo [Infancy]. Petersburg: “Alkonost,” 1918. 62
pp. 4to (170 x 130 mm). Original two-color wrapperrs. Condition:
wrappers slightly soiled and foxed.
[And:] Rodnoe i vselenskoe [Native and Universal Matters]. Moscow:
G. A. Leman and S. I. Sakharov, 1918. 208 pp. 8vo (240 x 160 mm).
Original two-color tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers somewhat
soiled and worn.
[And:] Prometei. Tragediya [Prometeius. A Tragedy]. Petersburg:
“Alkonost,” 1919. 86 pp. (uncut), 8vo (210 x 150 mm). Original tan
wrappers. Condition: wrappers soiled with some red ink and pencil
writing.
[And:] Kontsy i nachala [Ends and Beginnings]. Paris: “Pascal”, 1930.
31 pp. (uncut), 8vo (195 x 145 mm). Original wrappers. Condition:
wrappers worn and soiled; internal water damage. (6).
$1200 – $1800
Lot 56. IURKUN, Iuri Osip Ivanovich (1895-1938) and
Iurii Pavlovich ANNENKOV [Georges Annenkoff]
(1889-1974) (illustrator).
Durnaya kompaniya [Bad Company]. Petrograd: [“Felana,”] 1917
[1918]. 187 pp. 8vo (165 x 125 mm). Illustrated by Iu. P. Annenkov.
Original decorated tan wrappers designed by Annenkov. Condition:
backstrip partially reglued, wrappers with occasional light soiling,
fore edge with intermittent slight chipping.
rare novel about early soviet life by mikhail kuzmin’s
bisexual companion. After the first major love of his life Vsevolod
Knyazev committed suicide in 1913, Kuzmin took up with another,
much younger poet Iuri Iurkun. The two men stayed together until
Kuzmin’s death from pneumonia in 1936. Kuzmin refers to Iurkun
in his last book Forel razbivaet led [The Trout Breaks the Ice] (1929)
with the nickname “Mister Dorian” from Oscar Wilde’s The Picture
of Dorian Gray. The Communists decreed consensual sodomy
between men illegal in 1933. Although Kuzmin died before the law
could affect him, Iurkun was executed in 1938. Not in MoMA.
$5000 – $8000
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Lot 57
Lot 58
Lot 57. JSZELENOF, Nikolai [Nikolai Ivanovich
ISTSELENOV] (1891 - 1981).
Moskauer Typen. [Moscow Types] Berlin: Trirema Verlag, [1922].
11 pp. 8vo (230 x 155 mm). 11 lithographs (including title page).
Original cloth-backed lithographed tan boards with the original
black silk ties intact. Condition: occasional spotting to covers, back
hinge reglued, spine neatly repaired.
number 26 of 100 copies and signed and numbered by the
artist in red ink. quick pithy studies of the orator, the
red guard, various peddlers and other contemporary
soviet street types. Istselenov studied painting and received an
architectural degree in 1917. He emigrated to Finland about 1920
and illustrated Russian books and designed for the Russian theater
while living in Berlin from 1921 until 1925. He then settled in
Paris where he continued to work as an artist and architect. Not in
MoMA.
$2000 – $3000
Lot 58. KAMENSKY, Vasily Vasilevich (1884-1961) and
Aleksandr Mikhailovich RODCHENKO (1891-1956)
(illustrator).
Lunost Mayakovskogo [Mayakovsky’s Youth]. Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1931.
84 pp. 8vo (180 x 130 mm). Constructivist designs by Rodchenko.
Original paper on lithographic cardboard covers in red, gray and
black. Condition: joints repaired with split at tail of rear board with
slight loss; extremities rubbed, small stamps and ink marks on rear
pastedown and endpaper, unobtrusive scattered marginalia in red
and black pencil.
Includes a drawing of Kamensky by Mayakovsky and five printed
announcements of Futurist activities, two of which are integrated
with the text. Kamensky’s frienship with Mayakovsky extends back
at least as far as 1917 when the two, together with David Burliuk,
organized The Poets’ Cafe in Moscow. Not in MoMA.
$1800 – $2500
Lot 59. [KANDINSKY, Wassily (1866-1944)].
Trudy vserossiiskago sezda khudozhnikov v Petyrograd Dekabr 1911-Yanvar 1912 [All-Russian Congress of Artists in Petrograd from December 1911
to January 1912]. Petrograd: [Golike and A. Vilborg, n.d.]. 3 volumes. Folio (350 x 253mm. and smaller). Plates, occasional illustrations.
Later grey cloth with original paper wrappers mounted on the upper and lower covers (volumes I and III) or orginal wrappers (volume II).
Condition: light overall toning, occasional small marginal tears to volume II; light soiling to volumes I and III, volume II with stitching broken,
covers detached and lightly soiled, backstrip lacking.
first publication in russian of kandinsky’s seminal essay “on the spiritual in art.” With addresses by Alexandre Benois, Ivan
Yakovlevich Bilibin, Nicolai Ivan Kulbin and others. The All-Russian Congress of Artists in 1911 combined both the new and the old. It
held the first exhibition of restored icons; and Kandinsky’s famous statement “O dukhovnom v iskusstve (zhivopis)” [“On the Spiritrual in
Art (Painting)”] was presented in December. It was published for the first time in Russian here in the first volume of the official proceedings
of the Congress, pp. 47-52. Kandinsky passionately argued for nonobjective art and thus defined the modern concept of abstract art. Franz
Marc arranged for the essay’s publication in Munich and an English translation came out in 1914. Not in MoMA. (3)
$6000 – $8000
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Lot 61
Lot 60. KARDOVSKII, Dmitrii Nikolaevich (1866-1943)
(illustrator).
Nevskii Prospekt. St. Petersburg: Kryzhok Liubitelei Russkikh
Izyaschykh Isdanii, 1905. 73 pp. Folio (295 x 210 mm). By
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. Printed by R. Golike and A. Vilborg, St.
Petersburg. Rebound in contemporary half leather over marbled
boards’ spine stamped in gilt. Condition: slight abrading to boards,
last gathering loose. Provenance: presented Aleksandr Sergeevich
Ermolov as stated on the limitation leaf.
number 6 of 125 numbered copies from an edition of 150.
An unusually delightful edition of Gogol’s famous story illustrated
by Kardovskii in the period in which it was written.
$3000 – $4000
Lot 61. KHLEBNIKOV, Velimir
[Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov] (1885-1922) and
Valentina Nikiforovna KULAGINA-KLUTSIS (1902-1987)
(illustrator).
Zapisnaya knizhka Velimira Khlebnikova. Sobral i snabdil primechaniyami
A. Kruchenykh [Velimir Khlebnikov’s Notebook. Collected and Supplied
with Notes by A. Krchenykh]. Moscow : Izdanie Vserossiiskogo Soiuza
Poetov, 1925. 32 pp. Small square 8vo (190 x 140 mm). Portrait
frontiispiece. Original tan wrappers designed by V. N. Kulagina-
Klutsis. Condition: small tears to covers.
rare posthumous publication of the great russian
futurist writer and edited by his fellow advocate of the
‘transrational’ kruchenykh. One of 2000 copies. Khlebnikov
was a seminal figure in the Russian Futurist movement and one of
the most influential Russian poets of the modern age. In 1912 he
coined the neologism Budetlyane (Men of the Future), encapsulating
the Futurist ethos in one word. His fellow Futurist poet Aleksei
Kruchenykh edited this notebook after his friend suffered a stroke
and tragically died at the age of 37. MoMA 598.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 62. KIRSANOV, Semen Isaakovich (1906-1972).
Stikhi v stroiu [Verse in the Ranks]. Leningrad: OGIZ, 1932. Panorama
designed by Nikolai Ilin. Folio (285 x 210 mm). Original two-color
photomontage self-wrappers. Condition: wrappers slightly creased
with minor repair at fold.
rare soviet propaganda panorama. one of 5000 copies.
From an early age, Kirsanov wrote poems about the Revolution,
the Red Army and the liquidation of illiteracy. On moving from
Odessa to Moscow, he joined Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Lef ”
movement. During the 1930s, he wrote propaganda that promoted
the agitational goals of the Soviet goverment. Stikhi v stroiu glorifies
May Day and provides at least one lively marching song. The design
of the foldout with its bold typographical experimentation is a fine
example of Constructivist aesthetics. The only located copy of this
fragile pamphlet in a public institution is in the Russian National
Library in St. Petersburg.
$2000 – $3000
Lot 63. KONDAKOV, Nikodim Pavlovich (1844-1925).
The Russian Icon. Prague: Seminarium Kondakovianum, 1928. Folio
(424 x 322 mm). Title in red and black. 65 mounted colored plates.
Text: stitched, as issued; plates: unbound, as issued, all within a single
cream card portfolio, covers of the portfolio printed in red and gilt.
Condition: light soiling; light spotting and small tears to portfolio.
Kondakov was a Russian historian and a specialist in history of
Byzantine art. He enjoyed a long and distinguished career as an
academic, teaching at the Moscow Art School, the University of
Novorossia and St. Petersburg University. Soon after the revolution
Kondakov emigrated to Bulgaria and then to Prague where he
taught until his death in 1925. He archived a prodigious amount of
Russian art, much of it largely unknown, employing iconographic
principles to their study. Kondakov wrote numerous books on the
history of Ancient Greek, Russian, Georgian and Byzantine art;
and his lectures proved to have an enormous influence upon many
future Russian historians. Icons were cultural artifacts to Kondakov
as much as art objects; his work stresses their position within a larger
historical context. He organized art by region or what he termed a
“common tendency” from which he portrayed an entire epoch.
$1500 – $2000
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Lot 64. KOROVIN, Konstantin Alekseevich (1861-1939).
Shalyapin [Chaliapin]. Paris: “Vozrozhdenie,” 1939. 214 pp. 8vo (185 140 mm). Burgundy cloth over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt,
decorative endpapers. Condition: joints neatly repaired, unobtrusive rubber stamps to title page and blank. Provenance: Boris Pavlovich
Voinarskii as printed on the frontispiece.
presentation copy inscribed in ink by the author on the title page and dated february 10, 1939. This memoir of the great
opera singer draws on the author’s close friendship with Chaliapin. Korovin painted his portrait in 1915 and it remains one of the artist’s best
known works.
$4000 – $6000
Lot 64
Lot 65. KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei Eliseevich (1886-1968) and Gustav Gustavovich KLUTSIS (1895-1944) (illustrator).
Na borbu s khuliganstvom v literature [On the Battle Against Hooliganism in Literature]. Moscow: the author, 1926. 32 pp. 8vo (170 x 130 mm).
Original lithographed pictorial wrappers by Gustav Klutsis. Condition: wrappers detached with slight loss to rear at lower fold, small rubber
stamps and pen marks in blue on back wrapper.
one of 5000 copies. A compilation of essays by the most deeply commited theoretician and polemicist of the Futurist movement. The
identical back image here by Klutsis was used as the cover for another 1926 Kruchenykh publication Dunka-Rubikha [Dunka and Rubikha].
Getty 368; MoMA 645.
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$500 – $800
Lot 66. KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei Eliseevich (1886-1968).
Gibel Esenina [Esenin’s Death]. Moscow: Vserossiiskogo Soiuza Poetov, 1926. 16 pp. Small 8vo (180 x 135 mm). Original photogravure
wrappers. Condition: wrapper edges slightly toned, fold rubbed.
one of 1000 copies. essay on the legendary peasant poet by the great russian futurist poet after esenin’s suicide. The title
on the cover is “Drama Esenina” [“The Drama of Esenin”]. Although the two shared little in common as writers, Kruchenykh was just one of
the Russian poets (including Mayakovsky) who wrote about the popular peasant poet and his suicide.
$1000 – $1500
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Lot 67. KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei Eliseevich (1886-1968) and Gustav Gustavovich KLUTSIS (1895-1938) (illustrator).
15 Let russkogo futurisma 1912-1927. Materiali i kommentarii [Fifteen Years of Russian Futurism from 1912 to 1927. Material and Commentary].
Moscow: Vserossiiskogo Soiuza Poetov, 1928. 68 pp. Small 8vo (163 x 130 mm). Illustrated with photogravures and line drawings. Original
Constructivist tan wrappers designed by G. Klutsis. Condition: small rubber stamp and pen marks on back wrapper; indistinct inscription
on title page.
important overview of this seminal russian avant-garde movement. one of 1000 copies. These articles on fifteen years of Russian
Futurism include short autobiographies by Kruchenykh, Semen Kirsanov and Sergei Tretyakov. Also included is a previously unpublished
poem by Velemir Khlebnikov and a self-portrait. The other illustrations are portraits of the poets by Mariya Sinyakova and Igor Terentev as
well as a photomontage portrait of Khlebnikov by Klutsis.
$2000 – $3000
Lot 68. KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei Eliseevich (1886-1968) and Valentina Nikiforovna KULAGINA-KLUTSIS (1902-1987)
(illustrator).
Zaumnyi yazyk [Transrational Language]. Moscow: Izdanie Vcerossiiskogo Soiuza Poetov, 1925. 64 pp., square 8vo (180 x 140 mm). Original
decorated wrappers designed by V. N. Kulagina-Klutsis. Condition: wrappers somewhat frayed and soiled; some internal soiling.
first edition of 300 copies. Kruchenykh is considered to be the most radical of the Russian Futurist poets and the inventor of zaum, the
“transrational” or “beyonsense” linguistic experiments that he continued exploring throughout his life. V. N. Kulagina-Klutsis was the wife
of the great photocollagist and poster designer Gustav Klutsis as well as a distinguished Soviet propaganda poster artist in her own right.
“[Kulagina] purposely made some of the title appear ‘out of key’ by allowing some letters to read out of register where the background color
changes from red to black, thus emphasizing their meaning” (Compton, p. 80). MoMA 599; Getty 392.
$600 – $800
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Lot 69. KRUCHENYKH, Aleksei Eliseevich (1886-1968), Ivan KLIUN (1870-1942) and Kazimir MALEVICH (1878-1935).
Tainye poroki akademikov [Secret Vices of the Academicians]. [Moscow: Budetlian, 1915] [Cover dated 1916]. 32 pp. 4to (225 x 191 mm).
Frontispiece, cover design and two lithographs by Kliun. Original decorated wrappers. Condition: wrappers lightly tanned.
a scarce copy that includes the first appearance in print of a text by malevich. Kruchenykh launches an impassioned attack
upon received nineteenth century Russian Symbolist sensibilities and advocates for a new, experimental poetic language; a “transrational”
linguistic expression he famously labeled zaum.
$2500 – $3500
Lot 70. KRYLOV, Ivan Andreevich (1768-1844) and Alfons Konstantinovich ZHABA (1878-1942) (illustrator).
Basni I. A. Krilova [I. A. Krilov’s Fables]. St. Peterburg: A. F. Devrien. [circa 1910]. 216 pp. Folio (310 x 235 mm). Rebound in marbled boards
with the original decorated wrappers bound in. Printed by R. Golike and A. Vilborg, St. Petersburg. Condition: wrappers lightly thumbsoiled,
tape repair to back wrapper.
rare elegant silver age edition of krylov’s classic fables in verse. Krylov was the Russian Aesop and La Fontaine. Devoting thirty
years to the collection, he not only rendered many classic fables in direct, simple and idiomatic Russian but also wrote many originals based
upon his observations of Russian life. Zhaba was a Georgian landscape painter. This edition of Krylov’s Basni in not only Zhaba’s finest work
but arguably the most beautiful Russian edition of this beloved classic.
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$600 – $800
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Lot 73
Lot 71. KUPRIN, Aleksandr Ivanovich (1870-1938).
Novye povesti i razskazy [New Stories and Tales]. Paris: “N. P. Karbasnikov,”
1927. Small 8vo (195 x 140 mm). Original wrappers. Condition: toned,
pp. 29-32 crudely opened. Provenance: inscribed by the author.
inscribed copy dated paris 1932. This short story collection
includes one of the best works during his exile. “Zolotoi petukh” (“The
Golden Cockerel”).
$4000 – $6000
Lot 72. KUPRIN, Aleksandr Ivanovich (1870-1938).
Elan. Razskazy [Elan. Stories]. Belgrade: [M. Pavlenko i I. Papova],
1929 [1928]. 161 pp. 8vo (225 x 150 mm). Rebound in flowered
cloth with the original wrappers mounted within. Condition: repairs
to mounted endpages; mounted wrapper thumbsoiled. Provenance:
Yakov Moiseevich Tsvibak.
presentation copy, warmly inscrbed. One of 2000 copies. Kuprin
was an enormously popular Russian writer of action and adventure
stories.
$3500 – $4500
Lot 73. KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich (1872-1936).
Ekho [Echo]. Petersburg: [“Kartonnyi Domik”], 1921. 64 pp. Small 4to
(145 x 100 mm). Original decorated wrappers designed by Aleksandr
Yakovlevich Golovin. Condition: wrappers thumbsoiled and detached.
one of 1000 copies.
[With:] Nezdeshnie vechera [Otherworldly Evenings]. Petersburg:
[“Petropolis”] 1921. 135 pp. Small 4to (170 x 125 mm). Original
decorated wrappers designed by Mstislav Valeryanovich Dobuzhinsky.
Printed by Golike and Wilborg. Condition: wrappers thumbsoiled with
light stains; small splits at backstrip extremities. one of 1000 copies.
[And:] Vtornik Meri [Mary’s Tuesday]. Petrograd: [“Petropolis”], 1921.
38 pp. 4to (130 x 90 mm). Original decorated wrappers designed by
M. V. Dobuzhinsky. Printed by Golike and Wilborg. Condition: light
spotting to wrappers and endpapers. Provenance: Lev Platonovich
Karsavin. first edition.
[And:] Lesok [The Grove]. [Petrograd: “Neopalimaya kupina,” 1922].
35 pp. 8vo (250 x 185 mm). Illustrated in blue with frontispiece in
black and red by Aleksandr Bozheryanov. Rebound in patterned cloth.
Condition: a few leaves stained upper right. one of 500 copies. (4)
$2000 – $3000
Lot 74. KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich (1872-1936).
Dva chuda [The Two Miracles]. Manuscript of the short story. 20 pp. (230 x 145 mm). Signed on the title page and on the
last page and dated 1919.
Although known primarily as a poet, Kuzmin was also a prolific writer of short stories. The manuscript explores the emotional
life and deep religious faith of a Russian monastery at the beginning of the 20th century. It concentrates on Father
Poglev’s relationship with the nun Sister Nanna, who is blessed with miraculous powers to cure diseases.
$6000 – $8000
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Lot 75. KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich (1872-1936).
Dvum [For Two]. [Petrograd: Segodnya, 1919.] 8 pp., small 4to (205 x 153 mm). Original wrappers with hand-colored linocut by Ekaterina
Turova and printer’s device designed by Vera Ermolaeva. Condition: back wrapper detached but present, occasional light soiling to wrappers;
slightly tanned.
rare hand-colored copy of the first and only edition of kuzmin’s children’s book. number 46 of 125 hand-colored
copies. Contains a device in watercolor by Turova not in the regular edition. The second of the two poems was dedicated to Lili Brik (“L.
Iu. B.” or “love”), the wife of Osip Brik and Vladimir Mayakovsky’s mistress. Segodnya [Today] was an artist’s artel or collective who met in
Ermolaeva’s apartment. In 1918, they established the world’s first avant-garde children’s book publisher. “The collapse of printing today has
given birth to a new kind of ‘handicraft’—art publishing. In St. Petersburg a cooperative of writers and artists has developed. They themselves
compose and make the linocuts, they themselves set and print the work. One can find a measure of consolation in the fact that the present
crisis makes us return to the fine old handcraft skills, which are now cheaper to use” (Tvorchestvo [Creativity], 1919). The artel broke up when
the Commisariat of Enlightenment appointed Ermolaeva rector of the art academy in Vitebsk. She later died in The Gulag. MoMA 258;
Borovkov p. 151.
$2000 – $3000
Lot 76. [KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich (1872-1936) and Dmitrii Isidorovich MITROKHIN (1883-1973) (illustrator)].
Sem portretov [Seven Portraits]. By Henri de Régnier. Petersburg: “Petropolis,” 1921 [1920]. 38 pp., 8vo (226 x 165 mm). Translated from the
French by M. A. Kuzmin. Illustrated by D. I. Mitrokhin. Printed by Golike and Wilborg. Decorated pink wrappers designed by D. I. Mitrokin.
Condition: some soiling and wear to wrappers, backstrip chipped.
Number xxvii of xxvii numbered copies out of an edition of 327.
The last erotic book to be published under the Soviet regime. Henri François Joseph de Régnier (1864-1936) was a major French Symbolist
poet who influenced Kuzmin and his Russian contemporaries. Although Aubrey Beardsley most profoundly influenced Mitrokin, the
Russian’s comparatively chaste, naive art in this volume seems more in line with Matisse and the French boudoir painters.
$1000 – $1500
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Lot 77. KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich (1872-1936).
Krylya. Povest v trekh chastyakh [Wings. Story in Three Parts]. Moscow: “Skorpion,” 1908. Second edition. 112 pp., 8vo (200 x 165 mm).
Original decorated salmon wrappers designed by Nikolai Petrovich Feofilaktov. Condition: wrappers partially split with occasional soiling,
back wrapper with ink mark and small chip to lower corner; backstrip with three small horizontal cracks and slight chipping to head and
tail.
russia’s first openly gay classic by the ‘northern wilde.’ The liberating influence of the Revolution of 1905 encouraged the first
flowering of gay literature in Russia. First published as the entire Number 11 of the leading modernist literary journal Vesy [The Scales] in
November 1906, Krylya followed works by Oscar Wilde and André Gide as the first important novel in Russian literature to deal openly
with homosexuality. This “coming out” novel describes a student’s relationship with his classics professor who frequents a gay bathhouse and
the young man’s growing awareness and acceptance of his sexuality. The Beardsleyesque wrappers were the work of N. P. Feofilaktov (1878-
1941), a Symbolist artist who belonged to Blaue rose [Blue Rose] and Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] groups and was a frequent contributor
to Vesy. At the time muzhelozhstvo (anal intercourse between men) was illegal in Russia so the suggestiveness of the novel shocked many
readers. Kuzmin was accused of being a “sexual provocateur,” and a “psychopath”; his “pornographic” novel suffered from a “vulgar lack
of taste” and it dared to “propagandize this unnatural vice openly” and “idealize it.” Maxim Gorky complained that Kuzmin was “evidently
a semi-literate who cannot write coherently and who is unfamiliar with the Russian language—and he presumably is the creator a new
culture!” Not surprisingly, Leon Trotsky too denounced Kuzmin’s “anarchism of the flesh”; and Valdimir Nabokov’s 1930 novel Soglyadatai
[The Eye] is a parody of Krylya. Although relatively chaste by modern standards, some critics have considered Krylya to be a milestone in the
history of Western literature. Aleksandr Blok, for one, called the novel “marvelous” and publicly defended Kuzmin against the “guardians of
journalistic morality.” The first officially registered gay organization in Russia was named Krylya after Kuzmin’s novel.
$2000 – $3000
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Lot 78. KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich (1872-1936).
Pervaya kniga razskazov [First Book of Stories]. Moscow: “Skorpion,” 1910. 335 pp. 8vo (180 x 115 mm). Rebound in contemporary blue-gray
cloth with the original decorated gray wrappers bound in. Condition: spine faded, endpapers toned; preliminaries lightly spotted.
[With:] Vtoraya kniga razskazov [Second Book of Stories]. Moscow: “Skorpion,” 1910. 335 pp. 8vo (180 x 115 mm). Rebound in contemporary
blue-gray cloth with the original decorated gray wrappers bound in. Condition: spine faded, endpapers toned; back wrapper absent.
[And:] Tretya kniga razskazov [Third Book of Stories]. Moscow: “Skorpion,” 1913. 351 pp. 8vo (180 x 115 mm). Rebound in contemporary
blue-gray cloth with the original decorated gray wrappers bound in. Condition: spine faded, endpapers toned; back wrapper slightly soiled.
three volumes of the collected works by the father of modern gay russian literature. One of these volumes contains
Kuzmin’s famous pioneering gay novel Krylya [Wings] (1906). (3)
$5000 – $8000
Lot 78
Lot 79. KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich (1872-1936).
Uslovnosti. Staty ob Iskusstve [Conventions. Articles on Art]. Petrograd: Polyarnaya Zvesda, 1923. 190 pp. Square 8vo (205 x 150 mm). Original
lettered tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers tanned and thumbsoiled
first edition. The great Russian poet discusses opera, prose, poetry and painting, concluding with an essay on Konstantin Andreevich
Somov who painted his portrait.
[With:] Novyi gul [The New Hull]. [Leningrad]: “Academia,” 1924. 32 pp. Small 4to (150 x 115 mm). Original decorated wrappers designed
by Dmitrii Isidorovich Mitrokhin. Condition: light soiling to wrappers, some chipping at fold. Number 170 of 1000 copies.
[And:] Forel razbivaet led. Stikhi 1925-1928 [The Trout Breaks the Ice. Verse from 1925 to 1928]. Leningrad: 1929. Original decorated wrappers.
Condition: wrappers with intermittent soiling, backstrip chipped with some loss; previos owner’s ink signature to title page. first edition.
Considered to be Kuzmin’s last great work, this poem describes one man’s idealized love for another. The highly autobiographical cycle refers
to Kuzmin’s first great love Vsevolod Knyazev and his suicide as well as to the last great love of his life Iurii Iurkin, whom he calls “Mister
Dorian” from Oscar Wilde’s novel. (3)
$1000 – $1500
Lot 80. KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich (1872-1936).
Osenniya ozera. Vtoraya kniga stikhov [Autumn Lakes. Second Book of Verse]. Moscow: “Skorpion,” 1912. 252 pp. 8vo (205 x 150 mm). Rebound
in flowered cloth with the original decorated gray wrappers designed by Sergei Iurevich Sudeikin bound in. Condition: wrappers lightly
stained. first edition.
[With:] Glinyanyya golubki. Tretya kniga stikhov [Clay Doves. Third Book of Poetry]. 108 pp. Square 8vo (200 x 140 mm). St. Petersburg: M. I.
Semenov, 1914. Original decorated wrappers designed by Aleksandr Bozheryanov bound in. Condition: backstrip chipped with some loss;
lacking rear wrapper. first edition.
[And:] Chudesnaya zhizn Iosifa Balzamo, Grafa Kalostro. Vtrekh knigakh [The Wonderful Life of Josef Balzamo, Count Calastro. In Three Books].
Petrograd: [“Stranstvuiushchii Entuziast”], 1919. 237 pp., 4to (142 x 100 mm). Illustrated by Mstislav Valeryanovich Dobuzhinsky. Printed
by R. Golike and A. Wilborg. Rebound in contemporary decorated light brown cloth with the original decorated pink wrappers designed
by Dobuzhinsky bound in. Condition: light soiling to front wrapper. first edition.
[And:] Vozhatyi. Stikhi [The Guide. Verse]. St. Petersburg: Prometei/N. N. Mikhailov, 1919. 79 pp. Square 8vo (210 x 160 mm). Original
lettered tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers detached and soiled but present; backstrip chipped. first edition. (4)
$3000 – $5000
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Lot 81. KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich (1872-1936).
Signed letter to Dr. Mikhail Dmitrevich Tushinskii with address on verso. In pencil on ruled paper. (100 x 150 mm). Signed and dated January 31,
1936. Condition: mottled toning, glue residue on verso not affecting script.
note sent to the physician shortly before the poet’s death. Kuzmin requests that Dr. Tushinskii come to his apartment and refers
to his longtime companion Iurii Iurkin who lived with him.
[With:] Photograph of Iurii Iurkin, Kuzmin and Aleksei Stepanov in the Summer Garden, Leningrad, August 18, 1934. On receiving this photo
from Stepanov on September 15, Kuzmin wrote in his diary, “In certain pictures even we could look like men about town.” This print
is labeled “Kuzmin v tsentr’ [“Kuzmin in the center”] in ink and dated September 6, 1934 in pencil on the verso. See Malmstad and
Bogomolov p. 253.
[And:] Nezdeshnie vechera [Otherworldly Evenings]. Petersburg: [“Petropolis”] 1921. 135 pp., 4to (170 x 125 mm). Original decorated wrappers
designed by Mstislav Valeryanovich Dobuzhinsky. Printed by Golike and Wilborg. Condition: wrappers slightly soiled; white out to half title
resulting in toning to the following few leaves.
Number 76 of 100 numbered copies out of an edition of 1000. The above photograph was at one time affixed to the publisher’s mark
page in the front of this volume The poet Marina Tsvetaeva recalled coming across this book in a shop: “I open it up: like a lance in my heart-
St. George! White St. George! My St. George, the saint whose life I have been writing for two months. Jealousy and joy, a two-edged sword:
I read—and the joy grows, I finish—and the serpent of jealousy is pierced, nailed down.” (3)
$7000 – $10000
Lot 81
Lot 82. LANSERE, Evgenii Evgenevich [Eugene Lanceray]
(1875-1946).
Leto v Angore [Summer in Ankara]. Leningrad: Brokgauz-Efron, 1925.
87 pp. Small 8vo (190 x 130 mm). Illustrated by the author. Original
decorated wrappers. Condition: light soiling and small tears to covers,
backstrip torn with some loss.
an elegant verbal and visual travelogue through the
near east. The artist composed these “poems, recollections, notes
and scenes from Anatolia in the summer of 1922.”
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$400 – $600
Lot 83. LEBEDEFF, Jean (1884-1970) and
Jean-Paul DUBRAY.
L’Ymaigier Jean Lébédeff. Présentation de Pierre Champion. Nombreuses
compositions originales dessinées et gravées sur bois et Catalogue complet
de l’oeuvre de l’artiste. Paris: chez l’Auteur, [1939]. Wood-engraved
portrait frontispiece, limitation leaf surround, half-title surround,
title vignette, numerous illustrations (20 full-page), decorations,
initials, all by Lébédeff. Later brown half morocco over marbled
paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers,
original wrappers bound in, t.e.g., slip-case. Condition: light soiling to
original wrappers. Provenance: Fréd Van Daele.
limited edition of 575 copies, copy Number 260 of 500 copies
on Rives paper numbered between 16 and 151; presentation
copy from artist. Warmly inscribed on the rectro of the limitation
leaf: “Au bon camarade Fréd Van Daele en toute sympathie Jean
Lébédeff Paris le 7 Août 1941.”
$800 – $1200
Lot 84. LEBEDEV, Vladimir Vasilievich (1891-1967).
V. Lebedev. Leningrad: Gosudarstvennogo Russkogo Muzei, 1928.
71 pp. Small 4to (172 x 135 mm). Publisher’s decorated wrappers
with self-portrait by Lebedev. Essays by Petr Ivanovich Neradovskii
and Nikolai Punin with bibilography of posters, drawings and
illustrations. 12 reproductions of works by V. V. Lebedev. Condition:
wrappers detached at backstrip with light spotting and tanned at
extremities.
rare exhibition catalogue of works by the great soviet
constructivist artist for the state russian museum in
leningrad. One of 1500 copies. Although best known for his
picture books with Samuil Marshak, Lebedev was also admired for
his female nudes and Cubist compositions reproduced in this early
monograph on the artist.
$400 – $600
Lot 83
Lot 85. LEBEDEV, Vladimir Vasilievich (1891-1967) (illustrator)
and Samuil MARSHAK (1887-1964).
De Reis door Rusland. [The Hague: “ De Baanbreker”/Servire, 1930].
12 pp. 4to (222 x 185 mm). Translated into Dutch by Ljoeba
Dworson and Eliza Hess-Binger. Color lithographed wrappers.
Condition: intermittent light spotting to wrappers.
rare authorized dutch edition of Bagazh [Luggage]. Although
Lebedev was one of the most influential picture book artists of the
early twentieth century, few of his works were available in other
languages other than Russian. Not in Petrov.
$400 – $600

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Lot 87
Lot 86. LEBEDEV, Vladimir Vasilievich (1891-1967)
(illustrator); and Samuil MARSHAK (1887-1964).
Petrushka-inostranets [Petrushka the Foreigner]. Moscow: OGIZ/
Detgiz, 1935. 12 pp. 4to (285 x 220 mm). Fifth printing. Color
lithographed wrappers. Condition: creased, wrappers soiled.
fifth printing but the first and only one with lebedev’s
pictures. This satirical puppet play about Petrushka, the Russian
Punch, was first published in 1927 with illustrations by Vladimir
Konashevich. Petrov p. 287.
$300 – $500
Lot 87. LISSITZKY, El [Lazar Markovich] (1890-1941).
Russland die Rekonstruktion der Arkhitektur in der Sowjetunion. Vienna:
Anton Schroll & Co., 1930. 103 pp. 8vo (290 x 230 mm). Includes
103 illustrations, plans, models and renderings by Lissitzky. Original
wrappers with decorated jacket in color. Condition: repairs to jacket at
folds, covers soiled, backstrip chipped with some loss at extremities
and edges, occasional underlining in blue pen in text.
Famous publication on modern Russian architecture, the first of
a series of three, the other two written by distinguished modern
architects, Amerika (1930) by Richard J. Neutra and Frankreich
(1930) by Roger Ginsburger.
$600 – $800
Lot 88. LISSITZKY, El [Lazar Markovich] (1890-1941).
Milgroim. A Yiddish Magazine of Art and Letters. Berlin, 1923. Number
3. 52 pp. Folio (310 x 245 mm). Edited by M. Vishnitzer and M.
Kleinman. Original two-color photogravure wrappers designed by
El Lissitzky. Condition: light spotting to wrappers and first and last
leaf; small chips to backstrip.
rare yiddish bimonthly with lisstzky article on mohilev
synagogue. About 1916, Lissitzky and his friend and fellow Jewish
artist Issachar Ryback made a pilgrimage to the magnificent 18thcentury
Mohilev Synagogue on the shores of the Dniepr. The
experience profoundly moved Lisstzky (“the painter has done his
work with the aid of just a few simple colors, that a whole great
world comes to life, blossoms forth and fills this small cube”) and
he made sketches of details in the interior. He chose 6 of these
drawings (2 in color) to illustrate his memories of the visit in
Milgroim. Also included in this issue are reproductions of works by
Lissitzky (“Construction”), Natan Altman, Marc Chagall, David
Shterenberg and others. Milgroim was devoted to all the arts—
painting, sculpture, music and theater—with “special attention…to
the artistic production of the Jews in the present and the past.” When
Harvard University mounted the 1987 Lissitzky retrospective, the
curators were unable to include a copy of this journal. No copies in
MoMA, Getty or BM.
$1500 – $2500
Lot 89. LISSITZKY, El [Lazar Markovich] (1890-1941)
(illustrator).
Zhurnalist [The Journalist]. Moscow, January 1-March 15, 1929.
Nos.1-6, 4to (280 x 220 mm). Illustrations. Original upper wrappers
with printed design by Lissizky. Condition: upper covers trimmed
with slight loss, lower covers lacking and replaced with plain paper.
six numbers of this rare journal on soviet journalism for
workers in the graphic art and printing industry.(6)
$4000 – $6000
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Lot 89

Lot 90. LISSITZKY, El [Lazar Markovich] (1890-1941) and Ilya Grigorevich Ehrenburg (1891-1967).
Moi Parizh [My Paris]. Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1933. 235 pp. Oblong 8vo (163 x 185 mm). 121 black and white photographs and 2 black and
white photomontages. Original blue paper covered boards rebound with endpapers. Condition: covers rubbed with some staining, edges
slightly frayed, neatly rebacked; lacking dust jacket.
first edition. An honest and uncompromising look at the City of Lights through the lens of El Lissitzky’s unique brand of photorealist
Constructivism. A poignant and remarkable documentary of Paris between the World Wars. Not in MoMA.
$1500 – $2500
Lot 91. LISSITZKY, El [Lazar Markovich] (1890-1941) (illustrator) and Alexandr KUSIKOV.
Der ungenannte Vogel. Gedichte. Ptitsa bezymyanniaya. Izbrannye stikhi 1917-1921 [The Nameless Bird. Collected Verse 1917-1921]. Berlin:
“Skythen”/”Skify,” 1922. 64 pp. Small 8vo (210 x 140 mm). Poems by Aleksandr Kusikov. Original decorated black boards designed by E.
Lissitzky. Condition: light staining to boards, neatly rebound.
first edition. Lissitzky was associated with the Bauhaus in Berlin when he produced this stunning Constructivist cover. Kusikov a member
of the Imaginist group. MoMA 406.
$500 – $800
Lot 92. LIVSHITS, Benedikt Konstantinovich (1886-1939).
Typescript of translations of 6 poems by Guillaume Apollinaire. 1934. 32 pp., (290 x 250 mm). Six poems signed by the translator in blue pencil;
“Cherez evropy” [“Across Europe”] with corrections by the translator in ink. Condition: pages browned with some soiling and fraying of edges.
Provenance: Igor Postupalskii Archive.
Livshits was an important figure in modern Russian poetry and helped found the Futurist group Gilea with Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vladimir
and David Burliuk and other avant-garde writers and artists. His aim was to “shock the philistine” and “throw a bombshell into the joyless,
provincial street of the generally joyless existence” of conventional Russian life. He too ran afoul of the authorities during the Great Purge. In
1939, he was arrested as an “enemy of the people” and executed.
$800 – $1200
Lot 90
Lot 93. MALEVICH, Kazimir (1878-1935).
Ot Sezanna do Suprematizma. Kriticheskii ocherk [From Cezanne To Suprematism. A Critical Essay]. [Petrograd]: Narkompros [1920]. 16 pp.
Small 8vo (170 x 112 mm). Original printed wrappers. Condition: wrappers soiled with repairs, backstrip slightly chipped, a few leaves
stained not affecting text, pen and pencil marks to back wrapper.
first and only edition in russian of this seminal essay issued by the commissariat of enlightenment or narkompros.
Refering to his own O novykh systemakh v iskusstve [On New Systems in Art] published in Vitebsk in 1919, Malevich traces the development of
various artists such as Cézanne, Millet, Courbet, Monet and Van Gogh as well as the collector Schoukine and their relationship to Malevich’s
own theories underlying Suprematism.
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$600 – $800
Lot 94. MALIUTIN, Sergei Vasilevich (1859-1937) (illustrator).
Ruslan i Ludmila [Ruslan and Ludmila]. Moscow: A. I. Mamontov, 1899. 48 pp. Large folio (510 x 400 mm). By Alexandre Sergeevich
Pushkin. With 18 color lithographs after S. V. Maliutin. Condition: splits to front and back pastedowns, upper corner creased on front cover;
light thumbsoiling to preliminaries. Provenance: Simeon J. Bolan (bookplate on rear pastedown).
first edition thus. Several opulent editions of Pushkin’s poems were issued in 1899 to commemorate the centenary of the great Russian
poet’s birth. Maliutin published a less elaborate version of Tsar Saltan the previous year. Ruslan i Ludmila is considered his masterpiece.
Maliutin did much to revive the folk art tradition in Russia and worked in a charming, self-consciously naïve style.
$2000 – $3000
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Lot 95. MANDELSHTAM, Osip Emilievich (1891-1938).
Egipetskaya marka [The Egyptianm Stamp]. Leningrad: “Priboi,” 1928. 192 pp. 8vo (170 x 130 mm). Original wrappers designed by Evgenyi
Belukh. Condition: wrappers faded and rubbed, worn at extremities; backstrip rubbed at edges and slightly cocked; occasional spotting
internally not affecting text.
first edition of mandelshtam’s short experimental autobiographical novel. Although Mandelshtam is known primarily as a
poet, Egipetskaya marka has had its admirers. It was his only major creative work written during the “poetic silence” of 1925 to 1930, when
he had been banned from publishing any original work in the Soviet Union. Vladimir Nabokov called Mandelshtam “a wonderful poet, the
greatest poet among those trying to survive under the Soviets.” He was also one of great tragedies of modern Russian literature. In the Fall
of 1933, he composed the notorious “Stalin Epigram” that proved to be his death sentence. He wrote contemptuously of Stalin’s “fat fingers.
slimy like slugs” and “his cockroach whiskers” and called him “the murderer and peasant slayer.” He was arrested but spared being sent to a
labor camp. After a suicide attempt, he was allowed to live with his wife anywhere except in one of the major Russian cities. In 1938 he was
arrested again and charged with “counter-revolutionary activities.” He was sentenced to forced labor and sent to a transit camp in Siberia
where he died under mysterious circumstances. “Only in Russia is poetry respected – it gets people killed,” he once sarcastically observed. “Is
there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?”
$2000 – $3000
Lot 95
Lot 96. MARSHAK, Samuil Yakovlovich (1887-1964).
Collection of four children’s book by the father of Soviet children’s literature. Comprising Progulka na osel [Ramble on an Ass]. [Lenningrad]: GIZ,
1930. 12 pp. Oblong 12mo (115 x 145 mm). Illustrated in two colors by Vladimir Vasilevich Lebedev. Original decorated self-wrappers
designed by V. V. Lebedev. Condition: intermittent staining to wrappers. Voina s Dneprom [War with the Dnepr]. [Leningrad]: OGIZ, 1931.
16 pp. 8vo (215 x 1785 mm). Color lithographs by G. Bibikov. Color lithographed decorated wrappers. Condition: light thumbsoiling to
wrappers with minor repairs. Goluby. Moscow and Leningrad: Detgiz, 1946. 16 pp. Small 8vo (165 x 137 mm). Illustrated by V. V. Lebedev.
Original color lithographed wrappers designed by Lebedev. Conditon: very light soiling to wrappers. Pozhar [Fire]. [Leningrad:] Detizdat,
1937. 13th printing. 16 pp. Small 8vo (210 x 160 mm). Color lithographs by Vladimir Konashevich. Original color lithographed wrappers
designed by V. Kodashevich. Condition: very light staining to wrappers with minor repairs.
important works of the great soviet children’s book writer. One of Maxim Gorky’s protégés, Marshak was a distinguished
Russian editor, translator and critic as well as the father of Soviet children’s literature. Marshak’s books, often in collaboration, with Lebedev
were immensely popular with both old and young. At one time thousands of Russian school children memorized his poems. He so
profundly influenced his contemporaries as a poet and editor that his colleagues were said to belong to Marshak Academy. In 1931, he and
Gorky consolidated the vast children’s book industry under a state-run publishing program into one publishing house Detgiz. Although
Lenin’s widow Nadezhda Krupskaya denounced it, Pozhar was one of Marshak’s most successful books. Konashevich reillustrated the poem
through many printings over the years. (4)
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$500 – $800
Lot 97. MARTIANOFF, Nicholas and Mark A. STERN (editors).
Almanac Russian Artists in America: Volume One, 1932. New York: the editors, 1932. 249 pp. Folio (305 x 220 mm). With extensive
photographic illustrations, 16 pp. advertisments at back. Contemporary marbled boards with original wrappers bound in. Condition: front
wrapper detached but present, waterstained and creased; back wrapper absent.
scarce copy of a unique reference work containing short biographies with accompanying photos of Russian-born artists who
emigrated to America. Musicians, writers, dancers, painters, actors and many more artistic categories are represented here. Among the 101
entries are such luminaries as Chaliapin, Horowitz, Ouspenkaya, Prokofiev, and Sudeikin. Although the editors note their plan for publishing
a second volume, it never appeared.
$600 – $800
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Lot 98
Lot 99
Lot 98. MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir Vladimirovich
(1893-1930).
Prostoe kak mychanie [Simple As Mooing ]. Petrograd: “Parus,” 1916.
118 pp. 8vo. (220 x 150 mm). Original printed brown wrappers.
Condition: one signature loose, short closed tears at head and tail of
backstrip, minor faint spotting to front cover, previous owner’s neat
ink signature on upper right front cover and front free endpaper;
censored words have been filled in in pencil on pp. 5, 113 and 114.
one of 2000 copies of an early collection by this most
incandescent of 20th century russian poets. Reprints
“Ya” [“Me”] and “Vladimir Mayakovsky, tragediya” [“Vladimir
Mayakovsky, A Tragedy”] first published in 1913 and 1914, in
addition to one of his most important poems “Oblako v shtanakh”
[“A Cloud in Trousers”], first published separately by Osip Brik in
1915.
$1800 – $2500
Lot 99. MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir Vladimirovich
(1893-1930) and Aleksandr Mikhailovich RODCHENKO
(1891-1956) (illustrator).
Sergeiu Eseninu [To Sergei Esenin]. Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1926. 16 pp. Small
8vo (173 x 128 mm). Original decorated wrappers printed in red
and black with front and back photomontage covers designed
by Rodchenko and two in-text Constructivist photomontages.
Condition: covers detached, staining at middle of fold from absent
staple not affecting text.
first edition. Mayakovsky’s by turns lyric and angry elegy written
in response to fellow poet and provocateur Sergei Esenin’s suicide
and with Rodchenko’s arresting visual contributions: a troika of
Russian genius. Mayakovsky and Esenin were friends but also
great rivals with conflicting theories of poetry. This is Mayakovsky’s
response to Esenin’s final poem written in his own blood just before
he hanged himself in 1925. “[His] death grieved me, grieved me in
the ordinary sense, as a human being,” Mayakovsky recalled. “It was
clear at once how many people who were still hesitating would be
brought to the rope or the revolver by those powerful lines—just by
the lines themselves…Only with another poem could you fight that
one, and you must” (Brown p. 315). Mayakovsky himself committed
suicide in 1930. MoMA 695.
$1500 – $2500
Lot 100. MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir Vladimirovich
(1893-1930) and El [Lazar Markovich] LISSITZKY
(1890-1941).
Khorosho! Oktyabrskaya poema [Good! A Poem of the October
Revolution]. Moscow: Gosizdat, 1927. 104 pp. 8vo (210 x 140
mm). Neatly rebacked in the original wrappers with Suprematist
cover design by El Lissitzky printed in black and red with agit-prop
slogans on the back cover. Condition: minor dampstaining to covers,
extremities rubbed, head and tail of backstrip with slight chipping,
one leaf frayed not affecting text.
first edition of the famous poem celebrating the tenth
anniversary of the october revolution. One of 300 copies.
While upholding the myth of Bolshevism, this lengthy poem
displays a deft balance between a celebration of post-revolutionary
radicalism and more meditative and somber personal recollections.
The Poet of the Revolution had become “a newspaper poet” who
was pouring out a steady stream of topical verse. MoMA 704.
$1500 – $2500
Lot 101. MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir Vladimirovich
(1893-1930) and Mikhail Fedorovich LARIONOV
(1881-1964) (illustrator).
Solntse. Poema [The Sun. A Poem]. Moscow and Petersburg: “Krug,”
1923. 30 pp. 8vo (165 x 122 mm). 8 illustrations by Larionov; 7 full
page. Original decorative wrappers by Larionov. Condition: wrappers
faded, occasional chipping to extremities.
first edition of mayakovsky’s canonical poem to contain
larionov’s illustrations. one of 5000 copies. The poet
and the artist were old friends. Mayakovsky exhibited his own art
with Larionov’s and they both drew propaganda posters in 1914.
MoMA 647.
$800 – $1200
Lot 102. MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893-1930),
Sergei TRETYAKOV (1892-1937) and Samuel ADLIVANKIN
(1897-1966).
Rasskaz pro to, kak uznal Fadei zakon zaschischaiuschii rabochikh liudei
(kodeks zakonov o trude) [Story about Fadey and How He Found Out
About the Law That Defends the Working People]. Moscow: Trud
i kniga, 1924. 47 pp. Small 8vo (175 x 130 mm). Illustrated in
black and white. Original wrappers in black, red, yellow and green.
Condition: covers soiled with closed tear to front wrapper at fold,
backstrip chipped, occasional spotting internally; ink markings on
front free endpaper and small rubber stamp on front wrapper. Not
in MoMA.
$700 – $1000
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Lot 100
Lot 102

Lot 103. MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893-1930) and Aleksandr RODCHENKO (1891-1956) (illustrator).
Stikhi o revoliutsii. Oktyabr. Fevral. Golod. Evropa. Iskusstvo. Smeshnoe [Poems about the Revolution. October. February. Famine. Europe. Art. Laughs].
Moscow: “Krasnaya Nov,” 1923. 100 pp. Small 8vo (175 x 130 mm). Original Constructivist wrappers designed by A. Rodchenko and
printed in red. Condition: wrappers with occasional soiling, backstrip rubbed.
first edition of this selection of nineteen satirical poems about early soviet life. one of 3000 copies. The Poet of
the Revolution took on bureacratic absurdity in these poems of “Nash byt” [“Our Way of Life”]. Although he generally did not care for
Mayakovsky’s work, Lenin greatly enjoyed the poet’s take on endless committees in “Prozasedavsshiesya” [“Lost in Conference,” pp 81-83].
“It’s a long time since I experienced such pleasure and satisfaction, from a political and administrative point of view,” he admitted. “I don’t
know if it is good poetry, but I guarantee you it’s absolutely right from a political point of view” (Brown p. 223). Not in MoMA.
$1500 – $2500
Lot 104. MIKHALIKOV, Sergei Vladimirovich (b. 1913).
Dyadya Stepa [Uncle Steve]. Manuscript of this writer’s most famous poem written entirely in his hand in purple ink. 3 pp. 4to (300 x 205
mm). Signed twice and dated September 5, 1938. Provenance: Fekula 5548.
manuscript of the popular children’s poem first published in 1936. “Uncle Steve” is a friendly policemen who became a symbol of
Soviet social and political education. In addition to many other children’s books, plays and poems, Mikhalkov is the author of the lyrics for
the Soviet national anthem in 1944. (He recently reworked them for the Russian Federation.) He became Secretary of the Soviet Writers
Union and was reportedly Stalin’s favorite living poet. In 2003, President Vladimir Putin visited Mikhalikov to honor his 90th birthday.
Pravda hailed him as “the patriarch of modern Russian literature and prominent cultural figure.” His son is the movie actor and director
Nikita Mikhalkov, who won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film for Burnt By the Sun.
$2000 – $3000
Lot 103 Lot 104
Lot 105. MVD (Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del).
Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del 1802-1902. Istoricheskii ocherk [The Ministry of Internal Affairs from 1802 to 1902. An Historical Study]. St. Petersburg:
Ministerstva Vnuterennikh Del, 1901. 232 pp. Folio (315 x 310 mm). Title with double medallion vignette, numerous portrait plates (6 on
india paper mounted, the others with tinted backgrounds), numerous Illustrations. Original light brown cloth, upper cover blocked in dark
brown, red-stained edges. Condition: some old damp damage to upper edge of covers, some light soiling.
an ambitious history of the notorious mdv. Aleksandr I created the MVD in 1802 to oversee everything from the police force and the
Internal Guards to the state postal system and the clergy. Eventually other agencies took over many of these responsibilities. Nevertheless the
MVD became one of the most powerful governmental bodies of the Russian Empire and one of the most feared through its secret police. It
continued to operate under a variety of names under the Soviets and was revived in 1990.
$6000 – $8000
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Lot 105

Lot 106. MELNIKOVA-PAPOUSHKOVA, N. F. (editor).
Antologiya russkoi poezii XX stoletiya [Anthology of Russian Poetry of the Twentieth Century]. Prague: “Nasha Rech,” 1920-19. 2 volumes Small
8vo (140 x 190 mm). Volume I rebound in contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards with the original lettered tan wrappers bound in;
Volume II in the original lettered tan wrappers. Condition: Volume I with minor rubbing to board edges, library sticker over spine, rubber
stamps to title page and following leaf; wrappers slightly soiled and backstrip chipped with some loss to Volume II.
With contributions by Anna Akhmatova, Konstantin Balmont, Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Valerii Briusov, Zinaida Gippius, Fedor
Sologub, Viktor Solovev, Igor Sveryanin, Aleksei Tolstoi and others. (2)
$800 – $1200
Lot 107. “MISS” [Anna Vladimirovna Remizova].
Kupidonovy prokazy. Les Avantures galantes. St. Petersburg: M. G. Kornfeld, 1913. 82pp. Oblong folio (260 x 255 mm). Original half cloth
over decorated boards with cover label, decorated endpapers. Condition: some staining and spotting to boards, hinges tender, some minor
repairs.
elegant album of pictures in the manner of aubrey beardsley and konstantin somov. Remizova (née Vasileva) was the sister of
the famous cartoonist “Re-Mi” (Nikolai Vladimirovich Remizov, 1887-1975). The two worked for Sverchok [Cricket] until 1908; afterwards
she was a regular contributor to the famous humor magazine Satirikon. She was also a stage designer. Beardsley had an enormous impact on
the graphic artists of the Silver Age including Somov and “Miss.” These delicate line drawings appeared in Russian periodicals before being
collected in this book. This copy includes numerous clippings of other pictures by this artist taken from magazines and newspapers as late
as 1917 and tipped in the blank areas.
$2000 – $3000
Lot 107
Lot 108. NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977).
Zaschita luzhina. Roman [Luzhin’s Defense. A Novel]. Berlin: “Slovo,” 1930. 236 pp. 8vo (200 x 135 mm). Publisher’s blue cloth. Condition:
covers soiled and dampstained, spine extremities split and chipped, front hinge cracked, corners frayed.
rare first edition of the master’s third novel. First serialized in Sovremennye zapiski [Contemporary Annals], Numbers 40-42 (1929-
1930). “That novel alone would suffice to give M. Sirin a very oustanding place in contemporary world literature”—The New York Times Book
Review (May 20, 1934). Nabokov did not get around to translating (with Michael Sammel) his novel as The Defense until 1964. Difficult to
find in any condition. Field 0666.
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$500 – $800
Lot 109. NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977).
Drugie berega [Other Stories]. New York: Chekhov Publishing House, 1954. 270 pp. 8vo (230 x 140 mm). Original gray wrappers. Condition:
light soiling and dampstain to wrappers.
first edition in russian of nabokov’s classic memoir. Originally published in English as Conclusive Evidence (1951), Nabokov revised
the text with new observations and expanded passages for his Russian readers. Nabokov did the translation himself. The book was serialized
in Opyty [Essays], Number 3, 1954; and Novyi Zhurnal [The New Journal], Numbers 37 and 38, 1954. He further revised and expanded his
memoir in its final form Speak, Memory (1967). Field 1097.
$500 – $800
Lot 108 Lot 109

Lot 111. PARAIN, Nathalie (1897-1958) (illustrator).
Lot 110
Lot 110. ORME, Edward (publisher).
The Costume of the Russian Army, from a collection of drawings made
on the spot, and now in the posession of the Earl of Kinnaird. London:
printed by J. Hayes, published by Edward Orme, 1807. Folio (370
x 260 mm). Stipple-engraved portrait of Czar Alexander the Great
by Godby after Jean Pichon, printed in colors and finished by hand,
but cut down (sheet size: 335 x 235 mm.) and mounted, 8 handcolored
engraved plates. 20th-century light brown calf-backed
marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt. Condition: dampstained
throughout, portrait cut down and mounted at an early date.
a rare suite with a fine portrait of alexander. The military
and naval plates are apparently portraits taken from life. Colas 735
$800 – $1200
Baba-Yaga. Paris: YMCA Press, 1932. Folio (320 x 280 mm). Adapted by Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Teffi. Lithographic colored illustrations
after Nathalie Parain. Original thin card wrappers, the upper cover with the title and an illustration lithographed in colors. Condition: light
general toning to text block; light general toning to covers, the upper cover with the outer corners creased, the lower corner with small
section torn away. First edition, issued simultaneously in Russian and French.
[With:] N. PARAIN (illustrator) and Marcel AYMÉ (1902-1967). Autres Contes du Chat Perché. Paris: Gallimard, 1950. Small 4to
(240 x 180 mm). 11 colored plates, 34 uncolored illustrations, all after Parain. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Condition: overall
toning to text, ink inscription dated 1976; spine faded, light toning to covers.
[And:] REITLINGER, Joanna (1898-1988) (illustrator) and Edmée ARMA (1904-1987). Sept Contes Finnois tirées du Kalevala. Paris:
Librairie Montjoie, 1946. 4to (267 x 205 mm). Title in red and black. Illustrations, some colored, after Reitlinger. Original pictorial boards.
Condition: slight toning to book block, ink signature to title; extremities scuffed.
The first two works are illustrated by Russian-born Nathalie Parain: one of the most inventive picture book artists working in Paris during
the 1930s. She studied at Vkhutemas and belonged to the Constructivists. After marrying Brice Parain, a philosopher and essayist working
at the French embassy in Moscow, she returned with him to Paris in 1928. Mon chat (1930) was a masterpiece of juvenile Cubism and
she illustrated a good number of “Albums du Père Castor” (1931-1940) for Paul Faucher of Flammarion as well as many of Marcel Aymé’s
“Contes du Chat perché” (1937-1948) for Gallimard. Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya (1872-1952) was a popular Russian author
of humorous short stories who wrote under the name “Teffi.” She is considered one of the great chroniclers of émigré life after the Revolution
and one of the few to be published in the Soviet Union. This book was also issued in French with the fairy tale retold by “Rose Celli” (Rose
Brua). The last was illustrated by Russian-born Sister Joanna ( Julia) Reitlinger, the only book ilustrated by her. (3)
$700 – $1000
Lot 112. PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich (1890-1960).
Stikhotvoreniya v odnom tome [Poems in One Volume]. Leningrad: “Khudozhestveniya Leteratura,” 1935. 440 pp. Small 8vo (195 x 140 mm).
Color frontispiece by N. Dmitrovskii. Original gilt-lettered embossed pale green cloth. Condition: previous owner’s inscription on recto of
frontispiece; spine and covers discolored, toning to endpapers;
second edition of the nobel prize winner’s collected poems, limited to 1000 copies. Long before the clandestine publication of
Doctor Zhivago in 1957, Pasternak was known as one of the greatest Russian poets of his generation. The book opens with his most famous
cycle of poems Sestra moya zhizn [My Sister-Life] (1922), one of the most influential books of modern Russian literature.
$800 – $1200
Lot 113. PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich (1890-1960).
Temy i varyatsii. Chetvertaya kniga stikhov [Themes and Variations. Fourth Book of Verse]. Berlin: “Gelikon,” 1923. 126 pp. Small square 8vo
(155 x 120 mm). Original purple wrappers with cover label. Condition: backstrip faded with small split at head; unobtrusive library stamps,
small tape repair to verso of front wrapper.
first edition of one of the nobel prize winner’s important books of poetry. Originally written in 1917 with Sestra moya zhizn [My
Sister-Life], Temy i varyatsii had to wait publication for several years due to the interruption of the Bolshevik Revolution. Sestra moya zhizn
appeared first and cemented Pasternak’s reputation as one of Russia’s great modern poets. Temy i varyatsii also contained poems written
during the interim. “In Themes and Variations Pasternak reaches the pinnacle of his technical virtuosity, equaled only by the most dazzling lines
in My Sister-Life” (Rudova p. 36). The two books were published in one volume in 1929.
[With:] Okhrannaya gramota [Safe Conduct]. Leningrad: Izdatelsvo pisatelei, [1931]. 128 pp. 4to (175 x 130 mm). Original cloth-backed
boards. Condition: hinges starting, minor rubbing to covers and board extremities, leaf edges tanned.
one of 6200 copies. This autobiography confused many readers and was not popular with the Soviet authorities when it was first
published because it abandoned conventional chronology to explore the important people and events that helped shape the poet’s artistic
personality. (2)
$2000 – $3000
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Lot 114
Lot 115
Lot 114. PASTERNAK, Boris Leonidovich
(1890-1960) and others.
Lirika. Pervyi almanakh [Lyrics. First Almanach]. Moscow: [Lirika],
1913. 97 pp. 8vo (180 x 125 mm). Original decorated wrappers
designed by Sergei Bobrov. Condition: spine and back wrapper
replaced; ink inscription on front wrapper.
first book to contain poetry by the 1958 noble prize
winner. With five poems (pp. 41-45) by the author of Doctor
Zhivago (1957) and additional contributions by Nikolai Assev,
Sergei Bobrov, Aleksei Sidorov and others. Originally educated as a
composer in Moscow and then a philosopher at Marburg University
in Germany, Pasternak devoted his life to literature after returning to
Moscow during the winter of 1913-1914. “Lirika” was the name of
both a short-lived group of poets to whom Pasternak belonged and
their publishing company. Lirika was the only collection they issued.
The eight poets each contributed five poems to the anthology.
Pasternak published his first collection of poetry the following year.
$1500 – $2000
Lot 115. PICASSO, Pablo (1881-1973)
and Boris KOCHNO (1904-1990).
Le Ballet par … Kochno avec la collaboration de Maria Luz. [Paris:]
Arts du Monde Hachette, 1954. 4to (307 x 222 mm). Title printed
in plum and black, half-title. 1 original lithograph by Picasso, printed
by Mourlot frères, 1 double-page facsimile of a manuscript by Igor
Stavinsky (printed in 3 colors), 12 mounted full-page colored
illustrations (7 colored by hand using the pochoir pocess), numerous
smaller illustrations, 6 colored and mounted (3 of these colored
by hand using the pochoir process). Original red cloth, the upper
cover blocked in white to a design by Henri Matisse, spine lettered in
white. Condition: lithograph almost detached; covers slightly soiled,
corners and head and foot of spine bumped.
first edition of this excellent overview of the origins and
history of ballet, with an original lithograph by picasso.
$3000 – $4000
Lot 116. RODCHENKO, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1891-1956).
Portrait of Mayakovsky. (428 x 345 mm). The photograph was originally taken in 1924 and this print dates from the 1930s.
rodchenko’s iconic image of the great futurist poet, polemicist and artist. In his 1931-1932 article “On Composition,”
Rodchenko wrote, “In photography composition plays a tremendously important part, possibly it is the single most fundamental
consideration. Since it is a young art and has something closely in common with painting, it has naturally drawn very considerably on
painting in the sphere of composition, the good as well as—more often—the bad.” By 1930 Mayakovsky would be dead and Rodchenko
the object of official scorn and contempt that resulted in professional oblivion. Here in a single image, is captured the promise and eventual
betrayal of the revolutionary consciousness that Mayakovsky so passionately believed in and eventually died for.
$10000 – $15000
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Lot 117
Lot 118
Lot 117. POETRY ANTHOLOGY.
Tsvetnik Or [Floral Ravine]. St. Petersburg: [“Or,”] 1907. 240 pp. 8vo
(185 x 125 mm). Decorated by M. V. Dobuzhinsky. Contemporary
half morocco over marbled boards, original decorated wrappers
designed by Dobuzhinsky bound in. Condition: overall toning;
scuffed, ownership inscription excised from the free endpaper.
rare russian poetry anthology. With contributions by
Konstantin Balmont, Aleksandr Blok, Valery Briusov, Vyacheslav
Ivanov, Aleksei Remizov, Fedor Sologub, Maksimilian Voloshin and
others.
$1500 – $2000
Lot 118. [ROERICH, Nicholas (1874-1947)],
and Barnett D. CONLAN.
Roerich. Riga: The Roerich Museum, 1939. Large 4to (330 x
237 mm). Title in red and black. Uncolored portrait medallion
on leaf preceeding the frontispiece, mounted uncolored portrait
frontispiece, 19 mounted colored plates, 107 mounted illustrations
(48 colored). Original cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in
brown. Condition: very slight discoloration to the spine.
$600 – $800
Lot 119. K. R. [Konstantin Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia] (1858-1915).
Stikhotvoreniya [Poetry]. St. Petersburg: [privately printed by the author], 1886. 238 pp. 8vo (175 x 125 mm). Title in red and black. Original
burgundy morocco, spine gilt stamped, back cover blind stamped, front cover with initials, crown and floral motif border stamped in gilt; silk
endpapers, a.e.g. Condition: rear hinge starting, covers slightly rubbed at extremities, final poem with a few marks in blue pen.
one of no more than 150 copies presented to family and friends. First collection of poetry by the grandson of Tsar Nicholas I
and uncle of Tsar Nicholas II. Even as a child, the Grand Duke was more interested in literature, music and art than in military affairs as was
expected of the Romanov men. He did serve in the Imperial Russian Navy and the Izmailovskii Regiment of the Imperial Guard before
marrying his second cousin in 1884. Although they had nine children, the publication of his secret diaries long after his death revealed how
torn he was between his love for his wife and his attraction to young men. He was a devoted patron of the arts who included Tchaikovsky
among his intimates. Both a gifted pianist and artist in his own right, he considered himself primarily a poet and a playwright He was one of
the few Romanovs who were close to his nephew Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra.
$5000 – $8000
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Lot 120. [IMPERIAL FAMILY - PORTAITS].
Group of 48 portraits of Tsars Alexander II, Nicholas II and family. St. Petersbourg, Paris, Berlin, Rome, etc: ca .1860-1900.
48 albumen prints on original carte-de-visite and cabinet card mounts (each approximately 100 x 60 and 160 x 100 mm) most with studio
imprints or stamps on card varso or beneath the print. Condition: minor toning and very occasional light spotting to prints, light edgewear to
mounts with a few corners bumped.
an important archive of four decades of photographic studio portraits of the royal family. Issued commercially by a
variety of studio photographers including Reuthlinger in Paris, Levisky or Pasetti in St. Petersbourg, Linde in Berlin and W. & D. Downey
in Newcastle (photographers to England’s royal family). Included are 16 portraits of Tsar Alexandre II, mostly in uniform and often with
the Empress and family, from the age of approximately 40 to a final photograph of him lying in state after his assination in 1881. Nicholas
II’s life is chronicled in 7 portaits from childhood to his abdication in 1917. Images of both Tsaritsas Marie Alexandrovna and Nicholas II’s
wife Alexandra (the last empress of Russia) are present with 10 portaits of the former including her as a young mother posed with Grand
Duchess Marie as a toddler. Of particular interest is an imformal portrait of Nicholas II in a morning suit, bearing the contemporary ink
notation on the verso, “Riga 1894.”
[With:] 7 other photographs in various formats including a news file photo of Nicholas II released on the day of his abdication, an albumen
print of a troop of Cossacks (the Royal guard?), Alexander with staff officers and Nicholas II reviewing soldiers.(48)
$25000 – $35000
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Lot 121. K. R. [Konstantin Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia] (1858-1915) and Aleksandr Konstantonovich GLAZUNOV
(1865-1936) (composer).
Tsar Iudeiskii. Drama v chetyrekh deistviyakh i pyati kartinakh [King of the Jews. Drama in Four Acts and Five Scenes]. St. Petersburg: [privately
printed by the author], 1914. 228 pp. Folio (340 x 260 mm). Music by A. K. Glazunov. Illustrated with numerous tipped in color plates and
photographs of the production. Original gray pebbled boards with color lithographed label designed by Petr Liven. Condition: covers rubbed
with some soiling, spine chipped at extremities with some loss of lettering at head
first privately printed edition of this anti-semitic mystery play by the grandson of nicholas i and uncle of nicholas
ii. This liberal retelling of the Passion and Resurrection of Christ through the eyes of a common man challenged the divine right of kings
and capitalism. Because the Russian Orthodox Church forbade any figures from the Bible being depicted on the public stage, Grand Duke
Konstantin staged his own play in the Hermitage Hall of the Winter Palace for an invited audience only in a series of “rehearsals” in January
1914; approximately 3,000 attended the ten performances. Jesus never appeared on stage but was indicated by the other characters and the
music. The Grand Duke himself played Joseph of Arimathea and Michel Fokine supplied the choreography. The play received wide critical
praise; and once the ban was lifted after the February Revolution, a full posthumous production was successfully mounted on November 6,
1917. Although later denounced by Soviet critics, this religious play was remarkably popular in the early Bolshevik years. There were several
foreign translations, including Victor E. Marsden’s English version The King of the Jews: A Sacred Drama (1914). A. K. Glazunov studied with
Rimsky-Korsakov, was director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory (later the Leningrad Conservatory) and completed Borodin’s famous
opera Prince Igor; his most celebrated student was Dmitri Shoshtakovich. Another student Dmitri Tiomkin thought the music for Tsar
Iudeiskii was Glazunov’s best work.
$1500 – $2000
Lot 122. [IMPERIAL RUSSIA - MILITARY COMMENDATIONS].
Group of 3 signed documents, official orders for the issuing of medals for naval officers and infantry officers. V.p.: 1825, 1867 and 1893. Small folio (each
approximately 325 x 205 mm). Two printed documents finished in manuscript and one manuscript document. Condition: minor browning
to edges.
The official 1825 record for a naval surgeon Bathurov and marine artillery lieutenant Popov’s commendation as well as the 1893 record for
naval officers Lebedev and Stoykov being awarded the Imperialist and Tsarist Orders. The latter men were also given higher ranks, while the
1867 record is for a lieutenant and a clerk in the 72nd reserve infantry battalion to receive similar commendations.(3)
$2000 – $3000
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Lot 123. RYBACK, Issachar Ber (1897-1935).
Shtetl: Mayn chorever heym: a gedekhenish. [Shtetl, My Destroyed Home, A Recollection] [Berlin: “Schwellen”, 1923]. Oblong folio (330 x 493 mm).
Blocked half-title, half-tone illustrated title, 29 half-tone plates (numbered from III-XXXI, four printed in bistre, others in sepia or black),
all after Ryback. Original blue decorated cloth-backed boards. Condition: small tears and light soiling to half-title, small tears to title, final
colophon leaf with slits cut for the insertion of a smaller format sheet, the sheet not present and perhaps not required; binding discolored,
lightly soiled, chipped and slightly cracked, modern endpapers. Provenance: artist’s presentation inscription in blue ink on half-title page and
dated September 11, 1929.
rare inscribed copy of this important work.
Born into an Hasidic family in the Ukraine in 1897, Ryback studied at the Art Academy in Kiev. He at first supported the Russian Revolution.
He joined the Yiddish cultural organisation Kultur Lige and particpated in the attempt to create a modern Jewish national art by combining
traditional folk art with avant-garde painting. The murder of his father inspired his Pogrom series of 1918, one of the most powerful depictions
of anti-Semitism in modern art. He left Russia in 1921 and lived in Berlin, where he came in contact with Constructivism. The present work
is a powerful depiction of a shtetl collapsing under the strain of war and revolution. (See also Lot 238.)
$3500 – $4500
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Lot 124. SALMON, André (1881-1969) and Iurii Pavlovich ANNENKOV [Georges Annenkoff] (1889-1974) (illustrator).
Art Russe Moderne. Paris: Éditions Laville, 1928. 4to (313 x 236 mm). Numerous illustrations. Contemporary roan-backed patterned papercovered
boards, titled in black on upper cover, spine gilt, original pictorial wrappers after I.P. Annenkov bound-in. Condition: binding rubbed,
scuffed and chipped, wrappers somewhat soiled.
[With:] Alexandre BENOIS, P. P. WEINER, E. de LIPHART, James SCHMIDT, Baron N. WRAMGELL, A.A. TROUBNIKOFF, and
Serge MAKOWSKY, Serge WIENER. Les Anciennes Écoles de Peinture Dans les palais et collections privées Russes représentée a l’exposition organisée
a St-Pétersbourg en 1909 par la revue d’art ancien “Staryé Gody.” Brussels: G. van Oest & Cie., 1910. 4to (280 x 220 mm). Half-title. Plates,
some half-tone, some photogravure. Near-contemporary green cloth, titled in gilt on spine label, original grey paper wrappers bound in.
Condition: six plates and four text leaves detached and loosely inserted; spine and upper cover lightly soiled, some discoloration to original
wrappers.(2)
$800 – $1200
Lot 125. SAUTIN, Ivan and Ivan IVANITSKY (editors) and El LISSITZKY [Lazar Markovich] (1890-1941) (illustrator).
An Album Depicting the State Organization and National Economy of the U.S.S.R. Moscow: Scientific Publishing Institute of Pictorial Statistics,
1938. 148 pp. Oblong folio (240 x 348 mm). Color and black and white illustrations, designs and charts by Lissitzky, Grigorovich and
Nikolaev. Red cloth wraps stamped in gilt. Condition: backstrip partially split at head and tail, wrapper edges lightly thumbsoiled, occasional
light spotting to endpapers.
extensively illustrated including many full-page color charts and graphs depicting aspects of Russian “State Organization,”
“Economic Construction,” “Welfare and Culture” and “Position of Women” in the USSR. Also with an insert at the back of estimates to the
third five-year plan (1938-1942). The present work is typical of the typographical work Lissitzky did for the Soviet government after his
return to Russia from Germany in 1928 where he had been highly influential in the Bauhaus movement.
$1500 – $2000
Lot 125
Lot 126. SHKLOVSKII, Viktor Borisovich (1893-1984), Osip Maksimovich BRIK (1888-1945) and others.
Sborniki po teorii poeticheskago yazyka [Debates on Theories of Poetic Language]. Petrograd: Z. Sokolinskii, 1916-1917. 2 volumes. 8vo (240 x 165
mm each). Original lettered tan wrappers. Condition: some light chipping to backstrip extemities.
important theoretical studies of modern Russian poetry by opoyaz. With contributions by O. M. Brik, B. A. Kushner, E. D.
Polivanov, V. Shklovskii and L. Yakubinskii. Shklovskii was one of the most important Russian literary critics of the early twentieth century.
He founded OPOYAZ (Obschestvo izucheniya Poeticheskogo Yazyka), the Society for the Study of Poetic Language. They along with the
Moscow Linguistic Circle developed the critical theories and techniques of Russian Formalism (a term originally used pejoritively by their
opponents). One of his essays deals with the Russian Futurist nonsense language zaum. Brik was an influential Russian avant-garde writer and
literary critic, who like Shklovskii belonged to the Russian Formalist school. He cofounded with Vladimir Mayakovsky the magazine LEF
(later Novyi LEF [New LEF]). His wife Lili was one of Mayakovsky’s mistresses and the subject of many of his most ardent love lyrics.(2)
$800 – $1200
Lot 127. SOLOGUB, Fedor [Fedor Kuzmich Teternikov] (1863-1927).
Stykhi. Tom pyatyi [Verse.Fifth Book]. St. Petersburg: “Shipovnik,” [1910]. 232 pp. 8vo (210 x 155 mm). Rebound in contemporary clothbacked
marbled boards with cloth tips and the original wrappers mounted on the upper and lower covers. Condition: some light soiling and
discoloration to the wrappers. Provenance: Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi.
rare presentation copy to fellow writer aleksei tolstoi given in fond memory. Sologub was an important Russian Symbolist
poet, novelist, playwright and essayist best known for his novel Melkii bes [The Petty Demon] (1907). Tolstoi (1883-1945) was an important
Russian writer of science fiction, historical novels and children’s books. Although he dropped the title “Graf ” or “Count” after the Revolution,
he was often referred to as “Comrade Count.” His most famous science fiction novel was Aelita (1923), made into an early silent Soviet
movie; and he also retold Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio as Zolotoi kliuchik [The Golden Key] (1936).
$3000 – $5000
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Lot 130
Lot 128. SHUKHAEV, Vasili Ivanovich (illustrator). and
Aleksandr PUSHKIN (1799-1837).
Boris Godounov. Paris: La Pléiade, 1925. 4to (300 x 235 mm).
Decorative title in brown and black, half-title, text printed in black
with headlines in brown. 18 plates, colored by hand using the
pochoir process, numerous decorative head and tail-pieces, all after
Shoukhaev. Contemporary morocco, titled in gilt on spine, original
wrappers bound in, t.e.g. Condition: occasional light soiling; joints
slightly split.
limited to 445 copies, this copy one of 390 examples on
“vergé a la forme” paper, numbered 245 and initialled ‘J.S.L.’.
$3000 – $4000
Lot 129. SOMOV, Konstanin Andreyevich (1869-1939)
(illustrator) and Antoine François PREVOST d’Exiles
(1697-1763).
Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. Paris: Éditions
du Trianon, 1927. Small 4to. (238 x 190 mm). Title in red and black,
half-title, 12 plates and 2 head-pieces after Somov, all colored using
the pochoir process and finished by hand, by Daniel Jacomet et Cie.
Contemporary French blue half morocco over patterened papercovered
boards, spines in five unequal compartments with raised
bands, lettered in the second and fourth, gilt device in the third
compartment, original wrappers bound in, t.e.g.
limited edition of 465 copies, one of 425 examples on vélin
d’arches paper, numbered from 26 to 450, this copy numbered 448.
$900 – $1200
Lot 130. STASOV, Vladimir Vasilevich (1824-1906).
Histoire du livre Les Emaux Byzantins [par] A.W. Zvénigorodskoï. St.
Petersburg: 1898. 4to (300 x 203 mm). Decorative lithographic title
printed in red and gilt, limitation leaf printed in black and gilt, 6 plates
(including 2 chromolithographs). Original cream cloth, elaborately
blocked in gilt and black, blue and gilt patterned endpapers, the page
edges elaborately blocked in gilt and red with a design including an
‘A.Z.’ monogram. Condition: light soiling to covers.
out-of-series copy from an edition of 100. The story of the
production of A.W. Zvénigorodskoï’s Histoire et Monuments des
Emaux Byzantins, published in 1894, together with the letters of
appreciation from princes, institutions, journals and various others.
$3000 – $4000
Lot 131. TELINGATER, Solomon Benediktovich (1903-1969)
(illustrator).
1914-i dokumentalnyi pamflet [1914. A Documentary Pamphlet].
Moscow: MTP, 1934. 92 pp. 8vo (250 x 175 mm). By Elya Feinberg.
With photomontages by S. Telingater. Original decorated black
cloth designed by Telingater. Condition: minor rubbing to boards.
One of 1000 copies. Along with Aleksandr Rodchenko and
Gustav Klutsis, Telingator was one of the Soviet Union’s greatest
photocollagists. 1914-i is one of his most characteristic works.
$800 – $1200
Lot 132. TERECHKOVITCH, Konstantin Andreevic
(1902-1978) (illustrator) and François PIÉTRI.
Les Princes du Sang. Large oblong 4to (268 x 317 mm). Title in red and
black, half-title in black, variously colored initials. 21pp. with colored
illustrations (7 full-page, 2 double-page), all after Terechkovitch.
Contemporary light brown morocco by Quéniot-Laballe, the flat
spine lettered and decorated with horse-shoes and riding crops in
gilt, gilt turn-ins, cream watered-silk pastedowns and free endpapers,
marbled blanks, original thin card wrappers bound in, matching
light brown morocco-backed marbled paper chemise, all within a
marbled paper slip-case.
a beautifully presented work on the “sport of kings”.
Limited edition of 200 copies signed by author and artist, this copy
numbered III, one of 30 copies numbered with roman numerals
and destined for the author, artist and collaborators. This example
further inscribed “Exemplaire de Collaborateur”.
$3500 – $4500
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Lot 133. TOLSTOY, Leo (1828–1910).
Zhivoi trup. Drama [The Living Corpse. A Drama]. [Moscow]: A. L. Tolstoi, [1912]. 68 pp. Large 8vo (265 x 180 mm). With 12 photogravures
after photographs by Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov. Original lithographed wrappers. Condition: wrappers with light thumbsoiling, light
chipping to extremities and minor tape repairs to verso of front and back; slight chipping to backstrip. Provenance: Fekula 5353.
first edition of tolstoy’s famous play. So upset by a performance of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya at the Moscow Art Theater (“There
is no real action”), Tolstoy decided to write his own play based on a true story about a woman who convinces her husband to fake his
death so she might remarry. Although written about 1900, Zhivoi trup (also known as Redemption) was not printed until after the author’s
death. Tolstoy never thought it was finished. His daughter Aleksandra published the play that his secretary Vladimir Chertkov edited in
Russkoe slovo [The Russian Word] in 1911. Konstantin Stanislavski was the first to direct the drama at the Moscow Art Theater in 1911. It was
soon playing in Saint Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and London. Jacob Adler starred in the first American production, one performed in
Yiddish in New York City in November 1911. It has been filmed many times, as early as 1911 and as late as 1968.
$2000 – $3000
Lot 134. TWAIN, Mark [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910).
Prints i nischii [The Prince and the Pauper]. Moscow: I. Knebel, 1916. 262 pp. 8vo (230 x 170 mm). Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. Translated
into Russian by E. A. Sushkina. Original gilt-lettered cloth-backed lithographed boards designed by A[leksei?] Kravchenko. Condition:
corners slightly bumped; jacket slightly chipped at extremities of spine panel and flap folds not affecting lettering.
early translation of the famous tale with the original pictures and in the rare dust jacket. Mark Twain remains one of the
most popular of all American writers in Russia. A Soviet feature film of the novel was released in 1943.
$600 – $800
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Lot 135. UKHTOMSKII, Prince Esper Esperovich (1861-1921).
Puteshestvie gosudarya imperatora Nikolaya II na Vostokh (v 1890-1891) [Travels of His Majesty, the Emperor Nicholas II in the East]. St. Petersburg:
F.A. Brokgauz, 1893-1897. 3 Volumes. Folio (380 x 285 mm). Plates, numerous illustrations. Original decorated cloth, g.e. Condition:
frontispiece to volume I loosely inserted, general toning; spines rubbed and chipped, adhesive tape to paste-downs.
the official account of tsarevich nicholas’ grand tour to the east. As an important member of the Imperial Geographical
Society and advisor to the Foreign Ministry on East Asian matters, Prince Ukhtomskii accompanied Nicholas II on his travels and wrote the
official history. He visited Egypt, India, Ceylon, Singapore, Siam, China and survived an assassination attempt while in Japan. The book took
six years to prepare and the tsarevich had to personally approve every chapter with Ukhtomskii. Despite its enormous cost, it went into four
editions as well as a cheaper one; also it was translated into English, French, German and Chinese. Ukhtomskii’s collection of Asian art was
eventually confiscated by the Bolsheviks.(3)
$10000 – $15000
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Lot 137
Lot 136. VOLF, M. O.
Kalendar dlya molodykh druzei M. O. Volfa [M. O. Volf’s Calendar
for Young Friends]. St. Petersburg and Moscow: M. O. Wolf, 1867
[1866]. 84 pp. Tall 8vo (260 x 175 mm). With 70 wood engravings.
Contemporary half black cloth over marbled boards. Condition:
joints starting, boards rubbed, scuffing to extremities; rubber stamps
to endpapers, some internal thumbsoiling.
well-illustrated early russian children’s book. This
anthology of poetry and prose opens with a “calendar” of the first
twelve years of a child’s life in verse. M. O. Volf was a highly prolific
Russian children’s book publisher of the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. Although Martin’s mother in Vladimir
Nabokov’s Glory (1932) deplores the journal, Volf ’s conservative
children’s magazine Zadushevnoe slovo [Cordial Word] had an
unusually healthy run from 1877 to 1918.
$500 – $800
Lot 137. ZELINSKII, Kornelii (1896-1970) and
Ilya Lvovich SELVINSKII (1899-1968) (editors) and
Aleksandr Mikhailovich RODCHENKO (1891-1956)
(illustrator).
Biznes. Sbornik literaturnogo tesentra Konstruktivistov pod redaktsei K.
Zelinskogo, I. Selv’inskogo [Business. A Collection of the Literary Center of
Constructivists, under the editors K. Zelinsky and I. Selvinsky]. Moscow:
Gosizdat, 1929. 260 pp. 8vo (225 x 150 mm). Photomontage
cover in black and red by Rodchenko. Original printed wrappers.
Condition: wrappers tanned with minor staining to back, tape repairs;
slight chipping to spine; paper slightly cocked.
Contains ideological essays on Constructivism and Socialism by
Zelinsky, poems by B. Agapov (among others), a novel in verse by
Selvinskii, a short story by V. Inber (among others), and musical
theory by A. Kvyativskii
$1200 – $1800
Lot 138. ZHIGANOV, Vladimir Danilovich.
Russkie v Shankhai [Russians in Shanghai]. Shanghai: Slovo Printing & Publishing, [1936]. 330 pp. Oblong folio (358 x 390 mm). Extensively
illustrated with photographic reproductions. Original dark red and black patterned cloth, aluminum lettering on front cover, aluminum
corner pieces (lacking on one corner). Condition: short splits at spine extremities, endpapers with occasional light spotting, white-out applied
to front endpapers, title page and rear endpaper not affecting text.
number 567 of unknown edition. Rare historical album of the Russian community in exile in Shanghai. The author writes, “In classifying
the material I treated the matter very carefully. I spent about five years in collecting it from my numerous friends and acquaintances the
number of whom runs into several thousands. Everyone who had the right to consider himself Russian Shanghailander was offered a chance
to insert his photograph in my album. All former subjects of the Russian Empire regardless of their origin and race could find an appropriate
place in the classified section of this album.”
$5000 – $8000
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Lot 140. ZVORIKIN, Boris Vasilevich (1872-1935) (illustrator).
Lot 139. ZORGENFREI, Vilgelm Aleksandrovich
(1882-1938).
Strastnaya Subbota. Stikhi [The Last Saturday of Christ. Verse].
Petersburg: “Vremya,” 1922. 56 pp. Small 8vo (170 x 130 mm).
Original decorated wrappers designed by Sergei Chekhonin.
Condition: rear cover torn with some loss, light overall soiling with
minor marginal tears. Provenance: V. E. Arens.
one of 3000 copies and inscribed by the author to v. e.
arens. The Symbolist poet, translator and memoirist Zorgenfrei
contributed to Zolotoi runo [The Golden Fleece] and other journals.
He was employed by Maxim Gorky’s “Vsemirna literatura” [World
Literature] and belonged to the Commune of Dreamers that
included Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok and Aleksei Remizov. Among
the poets he translated were Goethe, Heine and Schiller. He was
arrested and killed during Stalin’s Great Purge. Strastnaya Subbota is
his most important book.
[With:] Lilit [Lilith]. Autograph manuscript of the poem, signed by
the poet. 95 x 130 mm. (2)
$500 – $700
Letopisnyi i litsevoi izbornik doma Romanovykh [Annalistic and Illuminated Anthology of the House of the Romanovs]. [Moscow: A. A. Levenson,
1913]. 121 pp. Oversized folio (445 x 325 mm). Illustrated with chromolithographs and decorated by B. V. Zvorikin and S. Yaguzhinskii,
Original pictorial boards designed by Zvorikin. Condition: slight rubbing to spine and board edges, occasional spotting to endpapers.
sumptuous album issued to commemorate 300 years of the romanov dynasty. The tricentennial of Romanov rule was marked
by extravagantly produced tributes to the tsar and his family. Zvorikin worked in the self-consciously folk art manner of Ivan Yakovlevich
Bilibin. It was unlikely Bilibin would have been asked to work on such a publication as he had been jailed back in 1905 for an anti-tsarist
political cartoon.
$2000 – $3000
Lot 141. ZVORIKIN, Boris Vasilevich (1827-1930) - Aleksandr Sergieevich PUSHKIN (1799-1837).
Boris Godounov de A. Pouchkine. Paris: l’Édition d’Art H. Piazza, [Colophon: 15 November 1927]. Small 4to (230 x 165 mm). Half-title in
brown, colored decorative title, occasional head and tail-pieces and decorative borders to text in pale green, decorative chapter openings and
leaves preceeding each chapter opening printed in colors and gilt, 15 colored plates, heightened with gilt, all after Zvorikin. Original green
paper wrappers printed in brown and gilt, card slipcase. Limited edition of 955 copies, this one 775 copies on “vélin rives” paper numbered
from 181-955, this copy numbered 735.
[With:] Ivan Yakovlevich BILIBIN (1876-1942). and Jeanne ROCHE-MASON. Contes de la Couleuvre. Paris: Boivin & Cie., 1932. Square
8vo (230 x 183 mm). Half-title, decorated title, head-pieces, initials, illustrations (10 full-page), all after Bilibin. Original rose-pink cloth, the
upper cover and spine blocked in gilt with a design after Bilibin, endpapers patterned in brown to a design after Bilibin. Condition: light overall
toning; very light fading and discoloration to spine and upper cover. First edition thus. (2)
$1200 – $1800
Lot 142. BAKST, Léon [Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg] (1866-1924) (illustrator).
Souvenir Serge de Diaghileff’s Ballet Russe. New York: [printed by Sackett & Wilhelms Co. for the] Metropolitan Ballet Company, [1916]. Large
4to (302 x 227 mm). Printed on toned paper with decorative borders, uncolored portrait frontispiece of Diaghileff after Bakst, numerous
illustrations, including 15 after Bakst (1 uncolored, 14 colored [1 of these double-page]). Original patterned paper-stock, upper cover titled
in semi-relief in gilt with vignette. Condition: small tears to covers. A souvenir programme for the 1916 season in America with a cover and
illustrations after Bakst.
[With:] Ivan Yakovlevich BILIBIN (1876-1942). Col. W. de Basil’s Ballets Russes (de Monte Carlo) 1936. 3rd season. [N.p.: 1935]. Folio
(350 x 245 mm). Numerous illustrations, some colored and mounted, after Natalya Goncharova, Jean Hugo, Mikhail Larionov, Pablo
Picasso, Lèon Bakst and André Derain. Original thin-card wrappers, the upper cover with a colored illustration after Pozhedaev. Condition:
title soiled; covers soiled, glue perished and covers detached from book block, tears with small losses to backstrip. A programme with a cover
design by Bilibin for the 1936 season at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London.
[And:] Two other souvenir programmes, one for the first season of the “Opéra Privé de Paris” in 1929, with a cover designed by Bilibin, and
the second for the American farewell tour by Anna Pavlova in 1924. (4)
$1200 – $1800
Ballets Russes
& Other Theatrical Works
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Lot 143. BALLETS RUSSES - Maurice & Jacques de BRUNOFF (publishers).
Collection des plus beaux numéros de Comoedia Illustré et des Programmes consacrés aux Ballets & Galas Russes depuis le début à Paris 1909-1921. Paris:
M. de Brunoff, [1922]. Large 4to (330 x 255 mm). Title and text printed in green, illustrated with numerous examples of actual programmes,
or part programmes, some cut down and mounted, including colored plates, illustrations or designs after Goncharova, Larionov, Bakst,
Picasso, Matisse, Massine, Sert and Derain. Original light green silk over bevelled boards, the upper cover with a varnished color-printed
inset panel with the title and an illustrative design after Goncharova, three-color stenciled endpapers. slip-case. Condition: spine faded and
slightly soiled and spotted, creasing to rear endpaper, slipcase rubbed.
selection of reprinted special issues with supplements of the theatrical periodical Comoedia illustré.
With graphics by Léon Bakst, André Derain, Natalya Goncharova, Mikhael Larionov, Henri Matisse, Léonide Massine, Pablo Picasso,
José Maria Sert, and others. The text includes “Note des éditeurs” that introduces the selection and introductory text on each season by
Valerian Svietlov or Jean Bernier. The seasons covered are: 1909 (4th season), 1910 (5th), 1911 (6th), 1912 (7th), 1913 (8th), 1914 (9th),
1915 (limited season, the 10th), no season 1916, 1917 (11th), no season 1918, 1919/1920 (12th), 1920 (13th), 1921 (14th). Comoedia
illustré was a theatrical monthly that was published in Paris between 1908 and 1921; it suspended publication (except for special issues or
supplements) between September 1914 and October 1919. At the beginning of 1922, Comoedia illustré merged with Le Théâtre (1898-
1921) to become Le Théâtre et comoedia illustré (1922-1926). It often devoted whole special issues or supplements to the annual Paris season
of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and Ida Rubinstein’s Galas Russes.
$2000 – $3000
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Lot 144. BARBIER, Georges (1882-1932).
Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky by Barbier, foreword by Francis de Miomandre, translated from the French by C. W. Beaumont. London:
printed for C. W. Beaumont & Co. “sur les presses de La Belle Édition”, 1913. Large 4to (330 x 285 mm). 12 plates, hand-colored using the
pochoir process, 3 uncolored illustrations, all after Barbier. Pochoir plates by G. Barbier. Original cream thin-card wrappers, the pictorial
design on the upper cover from a design by Barbier, printed in blue and black with grey and gilt added by hand using the pochoir process.
Condition: neatly rebacked.
barbier’s first separately published book: a limited edition of 400 copies, “the sole edition in english” printed on “vellum
paper”, this copy numbered 235. Inspired by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in general and the dancing of Nijinsky in particular, the Frenchman
Barbier drew the legendary dancer in some of his greatest roles: Le Spectre de la rose, Petrushka, Scheherazade and L’Après-midi d’un faune. Niles
& Leslie I, 22
$2500 – $3500
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Lot 145. BENOIS, Alexandre [Aleksanr Nikolaevich Benua] (1870-1960).
Cher Monsieur Beaumont… Two-page autograph letter to Cyril Beaumont with watercolor and gouache of a scene in Act II of the Tchaikovsky
ballet Swan Lake, April 29, 1947. 25 x 175 mm. Provenance: Cyril Beaumont.
Beaumont (1891-1976) was a prominent ballet critic and publisher who often wrote on the Ballets Russes and Benois’ contribution to
their productions. The artist thanks him for the introduction to the British balletomane Peter Wiliams and mentions a mutual admiration
for Tchaikovsky and Delibes (“le vrai génie de la musique pour ballet”). Although not particularly fond of Swan Lake, Benois designed three
different productions of Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet in 1945, 1949 and 1954. This design either hearkened back to the first production or
the artist was working out ideas for the subsequent version. Theatre of Reason/Theatre of Desire 35.
$6000 – $8000
Lot 145
Lot 146. BILIBIN, Ivan Yakovlevich (1876
- 1942), KOROVIN, Konstantin Alekseevich
(1861-1939) and Boris Vasilevich ZVORIKIN
(1872 - 1935) (illustrators).
Opéra privé de Paris. [Paris: 1928-1929]. 6 volumes.
Folio (315 x 244 mm). Numerous plates and
illustrations, some colored, some mounted,
after Alexandre Benois, I. Ya Bilibin and K. A.
Korovin. Original pictorial wrappers, the upper
covers printed in colors from designs by Bilibin,
all contained within a single modern cloth box,
morocco lettering-piece to spine. Condition:
occasional light soiling to wrappers, one with small
tape repair to front; light rubbing at folds.
nearly complete collection of souvenir
programmes from the 1929-1930 seasons.
There are four issues from the 1929 season and two for the Spring 1930 season.
[With:] Boris Godounov. “Opéra Russe à Paris” programme from 1930. Folio (300 x 235 mm). Numerous plates and illustrations, some
colored, some mounted, after I. Ya Bilibin. Original gilt pictorial wrappers. Condition: wrappers creased with tape repair on verso of fold.
[And:] Boris Godounov. “Opéra Russe à Paris” programme for the Lyceun Theatre, 1931. Oblong folio (200 x 240 mm). Illustrated with
photogravures. Original pictorial wrappers designed by B. Zvorikin. Condition: light thumbsoiling to wrappers.
L’Opéra Russe à Paris was founded by the famous opera singer Maria Kuznetsov (1880-1966). All the major Russian artists from Benois to
Zvorikin worked for her. (8)
$8000 – $12000
Lot 147. GONCHAROVA, Natalya Sergeevna (1881-1962).
Col. W. de Basil’s Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. New York: Isaac Goldmann Company [1934 and 1936]. 2 volumes, large 4to (305 x 235 mm).
Numerous illustrations, some colored, after Goncharova, Léon Bakst, M. Larionov, André Derain, Jean Lurcat, Cecil Beaton, Pablo Picasso,
Raoul Dufy, and others. Original thin-card wrappers, the upper covers with colored illustrations after Goncharova. Condition: light spotting
to title of the second volume; some creasing to outer edges of covers. Two souvenir programmes with covers designed by Goncharova, one
for the 1935 season in America, and a second for the 1936-1937 [“4th American”] season.
[With:] POZHEDAEV, Georgii Anatolevich [Georges de Pozhedaev] (1897-1971). Ballets Russes du Col. W. de Basil (de Monte Carlo). [N.p.:
1933]. Large 4to (303 x 245 mm). Numerous illustrations, some colored, after Christian Bérard, André Derain, André Masson, Joan Miro,
Raoul Dufy, and others. Original thin-card wrappers, the upper cover with a colored illustration after Pozhedaev. Condition: occasional small
tears to blank margins; some creasing to outer edges of covers. A souvenir programme with a cover design by Pozhedaev for the 1934 season
in London. (3)
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$500 – $800
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Lot 148. DIAGHILEV, Sergei Pavlovich (1872-1929).
Souvenir Serge de Diaghileff’s Ballet Russe. New York: Metropolitan Ballet Company, Inc., [1916]. 40 pp. Folio (310 x 230 mm). Illustrated in
color by Léon Bakst and with photogravures of the dancers in costume. Original decorated gray wrappers with the original gray cloth tie
intact. Condition: light rubbing and creasing to wrapper extremities, light smudging to endpapers.
inscribed by sergei diaghilev, vaslav nijinsky and dancer flore revalles and each signature dated 1916. To avoid the chaos
in Europe during World War I, Diaghilev arranged with Otto Kahn for his Ballets Russes to tour the United States in 1916-1917. Michel
Fokine had left the company so Nijinsky was the principal choreographer. Diaghilev fired Nijinsky when his lover ran off to marry Countess
Romola Pulszky in 1913, but he briefly rehired him for the North American tour. The great dancer showed signs of dementia praecox during
this tour and finally suffered a nervous breakdown in 1919. He never performed in public again.
$25000 – $35000
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Lot 149. LEGAT, Nikolai Gustavovich (1869-1937) and Sergiei Gustavovich LEGAT (1875-1905).
Russkii Balet v karrikaturakh [Russian Ballet in Caricatures]. Saint Petersburg: [Legat Bros., 1902-1905]. Chromlithographs. Folio
(320 x 240 mm). Vellum-backed white cloth with letters blocked in gilt and the original chromolithographed wrappers bound in. Condition:
covers slightly rubbed with occasional minor soiling and discoloration, corners lightly bumped.
first and only edition. The Legat brothers were graduates of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet School and rose to premier danseurs and
performed with many of great ballerinas of the day. Nikolai Gustavovich became ballet master for the company and later for Segei Diaghilev’s
Ballets Russes in 1925-1926; he and his wife founded the Russian Ballet Society in Great Britain in 1923. At age 17, Sergei Legat originated
the role of the Nutcracker in Tchaikovsky’s ballet; in 1903, he and his brother Nikolai staged Josef Bayer’s ballet Feya kukol [The Doll Fairy]
with costumes by Léon Bakst. Their caricatures are often merciless; it is a wonder their victims ever spoke to them again. They were no kinder
in their self-caricatures.
$5000 – $8000
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Lot 150. MAYO, Eileen (1906-1994) (illustrator).
Serge Lifar. London: C. W. Beaumont, 1928. Large square Folio (330 x 280 mm). 16 illustrations. Foreward by Boris Kochno. Decorated
yellow labels over paper boards. Condition: covers rubbed with occasional light soiling.
number 309 of 500 copies. A tribute in words and pictures to the great Russian ballet dancer and choreographer.
$1500 – $2500
Lot 151. SUDEIKIN, Sergei Iurevich [Serge Soudeikine] (1882-1946) and Nicolai REMIZOV (1887-1975) (illustrators).
[Collection des Programmes du Théâtre de la Chauve-souris 1920-1921.] [Paris: Comoedia Illustré, 1922]. 5 works in one portfolio (as issued),
large 4to (317 x 248 mm). Illustrations, most colored, after Sudeikin, Remizov and others. Original pictorial wrappers, the upper covers
printed with colored designs after Soudeikine or Remizov, all within a single grey card portfolio, the upper cover of the portfolio printed in
blue with the title as above, and the “Chauve-souris” trademark of a bat against the moon in gilt and blue. a fine series of programmes
from the famous company directed by nikita balieff.
[With:] Balieff ’s “Chauve-souris.” Paris: M. de Brunoff, [1924]. Large 4to (315 x 248 mm). Illustrations, most colored, after Sudeikin,
Renizov and others. Original wrappers, the upper cover with a toned portrait of Balieff after Schoukhaeff. a souvenir programme with
advertisements that suggest it was poduced for a London season. (6)
$3000 – $4000
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Lot 152. GOLIKE, Roman Romanovich (editor).
Shut. Chout (Le Fou) [The Fool]. St. Petersburg: R. Golike, January 4-June 3/21, 1897 25 issues. Folio (305 x 230 mm). Original
chromolithographed wrappers; housed in custom case. Condition: occasional light spotting; else bright, clean copies.
complete six months of this rare satirical weekly. This elaborately printed and illustrated humor magazine contains early drawings
by Léon Bakst and Mikhail Vrubel in the March 22/April 3 and April 19/May 1 issues. There are numerous jabs at both the peasant and the
upper classes in color and black and white. The back covers are devoted to amusing full-color cartoons of microbes.(25)
$7000 – $10000
Periodicals
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Lot 153. BRIUSOV, Valerii Yakolevich (1873-1924) (editor).
Vesy. Nauchno-literaturnyi i kritiko-bibliograficheskii ezhmesyanik [The Scales. A Scientific, Artistic, Critical and Bibiliographical Review]. [Moscow:
“Skorpion”], January 1904-December 1909. 6 volumes in 13 parts. Folio (235 x 180 mm each). Rebound in contemporary gilt-lettered
leather-backed marbled boards with most of the original decorated wrappers bound in. Condition: 1904 bound out of sequence but
complete; Numbers 8, 10 and 11, 1906 lacking back wrappers; Number 9, 1906 misbound with pp. 79-84 between pp. 66 and 67 but no
loss; Numbers 2-6, 1908 and 8-12, 1909 lacking wrappers. Provenance: V. Rodevich (bookplates in all but the first volume).
complete run of one of the most important russian art and literary journals ever published. With contributions by
Konstantin Balmont, Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Kornei Chukovsky, Sergei Diaghilev, Zaida Gippius (“Anton Krainii”), Nikolai Gumilev,
Vyacheslav Ivanov, Mikhail Kuzmin, Aleksei Remizov, Fedor Sologub, Vladimir Solovev, Aleksei Tolstoi and others. Graphics by Léon Bakst,
Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, James Ensor, Nikolai Feofiltakov, Dmitrii Mitrokhin, Leonid Pasternak, Paul Signac, Konstantin Somov,
Sergei Sudeikin, Mikhail Vrubel and others. Also translations of French and other foreign literature by Maurice Maeterlinck, Frederich
Nietsche, Oscar Wilde and others. Kuzmin’s pioneering “coming out” novel Krylya [Wings] took up the November 1906 issue; his Kuranty
liubvi [The Chimes of Love] appeared in December 1909 with the four illustrations by Sudeikin and Feofiltakov. Some issues were devoted
to specific artists: Aubrey Beardsley (November 1905); Will H. Bradley (February 1907); Umberto Brunelleschi (March 1905); Georges
DeFeure ( June 1907); Feofiltakov ( January 1908); Mikhail Larionov (August 1909); T. Surge Moore (November 1907); Odilon Redon
(April and May 1904); Nicholas Roerich (August 1905); and Sudeikin (March 1907). (13)
$30000 – $40000
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Lot 154. RYABUSHINSKII, Nikolai and Georgii Ivanovich CHULKOV (editors).
Zolotoe runo. La Toison d’or [The Golden Fleece]. Moscow: [A. I. Mamontov; I. I. Kushnerev & Co.], January 1906 - November/December
1909. 34 issues (all published, including a number of double or triple number issues) bound in 8 volumes, 4to (293 x 216 mm). Large
square 4to (4 volumes: 340 x 310mm.), or 4to (2 volumes: 300 x 218 mm.; 2 volumes: 293 x 217 mm). Numerous plates and illustrations,
some colored. Contemporary gray cloth, top edges stained red (4 volumes), dark green half morocco (2 volumes) or dark red half morocco
(2 volumes). Condition: cloth spines somewhat faded and lightly soiled, the red-staining to edges occasionally over-enthusiastic; the dark
green morocco spines darkened to brown.
a complete run of this opulent art, literary and critical journal of the silver age. With contributions by Konstantin
Balmont, Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Valerii Briusov, Kornei Chukovsky, Maurice Denis, Zaida Gippius, Vladisov Khodasevich, Mikhail
Kuzmin, Vsevolod Meierkhold, Aleksei Remizov, Nicholas Roerich, Fedor Sologub and others. Illustrations by Léon Bakst, Alexandre
Benois, Ivan Bilibin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Nicolai Feofilaktov, Evgenii Lansere, Vasili Masiutin, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Somov, Sergei
Sudeikin, Mikhail Vrubel, Boris Zvorikin and others. Beginning in April 1908 in Moscow, Zolotoe runo, like Mir isskustva before, sponsored
art exhibitions and introduced not only the new Russian artists but also Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse and other Western masters
to the Russian public. June-September 1906 has a survey of Russian icons with decorations by Bilibin; the topic of the January 1907 issue
is the Devil; Number 1, 1909 is devoted to Paul Gauguin and Number 6, 1909 to Henri Matisse. Drawing on the talents of many members
of Mir Isskustva [The World Art], Zolotoe runo is arguably one of the most beautiful periodicals ever published. An exceedingly rare complete
run. (8)
$50000 – $70000
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Lot 155. BRIUSOV, Valerii Yakolevich (1873-1924) (editor).
Vesy. Nauchno-literaturnyi i kritiko-bibliograficheskii ezhmesyanik [The Scales. A Scientific, Artistic, Critical and Bibiliographical Review]. [Moscow:
“Skorpion”], April 1907-December 1909. 5 parts. Folio (235 x 180 mm each). All rebound in contemporary white cloth stamped in green
except the 1907 volume in contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards. Condition: joints tender on two volumes, light thumbsoiling and
rubbing to covers; wrappers absent in several volumes. Provenance: Ivan Aksenov bookplate in all but the first volume. (5)
incomplete run of this important russian periodical.
$8000 – $12000
Lot 156. MAKOVSKII, Sergei Konstantinovich (1877-1962) and Nikolai Nikolaevich VRANGEL (1882-1915) (editors).
Apollon [Apollo]. Petrograd: S.K. Makovskii, October 1909-1917. 23 volumes Printed by R. Golike & A. Vilborg, St. Petersburg. Various sizes.
Rebound in red leatherette, many with the original wrappers bound in. Condition: first three volumes with overall light toning, occasional
light soiling and old dampstaining, the later volumes generally fine and clean internally.
complete run of the highly influential art journal. With contributions by Anna Akmatova, Inokentii Annenskii, Konstantin
Balmont, Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Benois, Aleksandr Blok, Valerii Briusov, Abram Efros, Nikolai Gumilev, Vyachelov Ivanov, Wassily
Kandinsky, Mikhail Kuzmin, Osip Mandelshtam, Vladimir Narbut, Nikolai Radlov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Fedor Sologub, Vladimir
Solovev, Aleksei Tolstoi and others. Graphics by Léon Bakst, A. Benois, Sergei Chekhonin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Boris Kustodiev, Evgenii
Lansere, Dmitrii Mitrokhin, Georgii Narbut, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Nikolai Punin, Nicholas Roerich, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Somov,
Sergei Sudeikin, Mikhail Vrubel and others. When the magazine Mir iskusstva [World of Art] folded in 1904, Alexandre Benois filled the void
with this more scholarly and less avant-garde art journal. Like its predecessor, it contained articles on music and theater as well as on the
visual arts (23).
$30000 – $40000
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Lot 157. NARBUT, Georgii Ivanovich (1886 - 1920) (illustrator).
Gerboved [Heraldry]. St. Petersburg: [S. N. Troinitskii], January-December 1913. 12 issues. 214 pp. Folio (255 x 185 mm). Edited by Sergei
Nikolaevich Troinitskii. Headpieces by G. I. Narbut. Original decorated blue wrappers designed by G. I. Narbut. Condition: occasional
soiling, creasing to covers; a few gluestains from bookplates. Provenance: last two issues with the bookplate of Petr Ivanovich Neradovskii,
designed by Dmitrii Dmitrievich Bushen in 1921.
complete run of twelve issues of this rare heraldic periodical in the original wrappers for 1913. The great Ukrainian artist
Narbut provided not only the standard wrappers (that also served as the title page) but also an ornate headpiece in the Napoleonic style
in each issue. P. I. Neradovskii (1875-1962) was an artist and art historian; D. D. Bushen (1893-1984) was a member of the Mir Iskusstva
[World of Art] group and assistant keeper of the art gallery in the Hermitage Museum.(12)
$2000 – $3000
Lot 158. TERESCHENKO, Mikhail Ivanovich (1886-1956) (publisher).
Sirin. St. Petersburg: [“Sirin”], 1913-1914. 3 volumes. 8vo (230 x 165 mm). Original decorated gray wrappers. Condition: wrappers slightly
discolored and spotted, library stamps to rear wrappers on two volumes, slight chipping to backstrip extremities.
complete run of this poetry annual. With contributuons by Aleksandr Blok, Andrei Belyi, Valerii Briusov, Zimaida Gippius,
Vyacheslav Ivanov, Aleksei Remizov, Fedor Sologub and others. These volumes contain the first publication of Bely’s masterpiece Petersburg
after Petr Berngardovich Struve rejected it for his journal Russkaya mysl [Russian Thought]. It appeared in book form in 1916. Bely revised the
text and published this version in Berlin in 1922. Vladimir Nabokov thought Petersburg was one of the “greatest masterpieces of twentieth
century prose,” next only to Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” (1915) and better than Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu
(1913-1927).(3)
$3000 – $5000
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Lot 159. CHULKOV, Georgii Ivanovich (1879-1939) (editor).
Fakely [Torches]. St. Petersburg: D. K. Tikhomirov, 1906-1908. 3 volumes Various sizes. Volume 1 in the original purple wrappers designed by
Evgenii Lancere; the other two rebound in cloth-backed marbled boards with the original yellow or purple wrappers. Designed by Evgenii
Lancere and V. Ya. Chembrs bound in. Condition: wrappers worn with splits and chipping to backstrip; rubbing to boards, corners slightly
bumped.
complete run of this rare symbolist annual. With contributions by Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Valerii Briusov, Ivan Bunin,
Vyacheslav Ivanov, Aleksei Remizov, Fedor Sologub, Boris Zaitsev and others. With graphics by Ivan Bibibin, V. Ya. Chembrs, Mstislav
Dobuzhinsky (uncredited), E. E. Lansere and Boris Zamirailo. Chulkov called for Russian writers to discard Symbolism and Decadence
for what he called “Mystical Anarchism.” Drawing largely on Friederich Nietzsche’s ideas, this new philosophy tried to reconcile individual
freedom and social harmony. While Aleksandr Blok and Vyacheslav Ivanov supported the new doctrine, Valerii Briusov and Andrei Belyi
challenged it.(3)
$3000 – $5000
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Lot 160. KRIMOV, Vladimir Pimenovich (editor).
Stolitsa i usadba [The Capital and Mansion]. Petrograd: December 15, 1913- September 30, 1917. 90 numbers (including some multiple
issues) in 4 volumes, folio (345 x 260 mm). Printed by R. Golike and A. Vilborg, St. Petersburg. Numerous illustrations. Original decorated
wrappers. Condition: some toning to text; occasional splits to backstrips, and toning to covers.
complete run of this rare “journal of the beautiful life”. Limited to 1500 copies. This elegant bi-weekly surveyed the art, architecture,
interiors and divertissements of Russia’s extravagant upper classes on the eve of the Revolution. It was modelled on the London journal
Country Life; headings by the English artist Arthur Rackham from this magazine as well as cartoons by W. Heath Robinson, Harry Rountree
and James Montgomery Flagg appear in Stolitsa i usadba. The ladies and gentleman in this Russian journal seem completely oblivious to the
World War and the approaching apocalypse. Number 55 (April 1, 1916) dealt with the Tsar and his family so the Bolsheviks confiscated it.
Nauchnaya i spravochnaya literatura-iskysstvo (1977) states on p. 55 that this issue was “withdrawn.”(4)
$50000 – $70000
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Lot 161. POETRY ALMANACS.
Almanakh muz 1916 [The Almanac of the Muse 1916]. Petrograd:
“Felana,” 1916. 200 pp. 8vo (240 x 170 mm). Decorations (including
publisher’s mark) by Sergei Chekhonin. Original decorated gray
wrappers designed by Chekhonin. Condition: wrappers soiled,
partially detached; library stamps. one of 1100 copies. With
contributions by Innokentii Annenskii, Anna Akhmatova, Valerii
Briusov, Nikolai Gumilev, Georgii Ivanov, Mikhail Kuzmin, Osip
Mandelshtam, Marina Tsvetaeva and others.
[With:] Drakon. Almanakh stikhov [The Dragon. Almanac of Verse].
Petersburg: [Tsek Poetov], 1921. 80 pp. 8vo (230 x 160 mm).
Original tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers partially detached,
small splits at extremities. one of 5000 copies. With contributions
by Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, N. Gumilev, Georgii Ivanov, M.
Kuzmin, O. Mandelshtam, Fedor Sologub and others.
[And:] Almanakh tsekha poetov. Kniga Vtoraya [Almanac. Second
Book]. Petrograd: [Tsekh Poetov], 1921. 88 pp. 8vo (225 x 150
mm). Original blue cloth with cover label. Condition: soiling to
label, library stamps to prelims and title page. one of 1500 copies.
With contributions by N. Gumilev, G. Ivanov, O. Mandelshtam and
others. The compilers note that the book had gone to press when
they learned of the death of Aleksandr Blok. The volume concludes
with the final two poems by Nikolai Gumilev shortly before he was
executed in August 1921.(3)
$4000 – $6000
Lot 162. ART AND LITERARY ALMANAC.
Almanakh “Tvorchestvo” [Almanac of “Creativity”]. Moscow and
Petrograd: “Tvorchestvo,” 1917-1918. Volumes 1 and 2. 159 + 182
pp. 4to (260 x 195 each). Original decorated wrappers designed by
Boris Zvorikin. Condition: minor chipping and spotting to wrappers;
backstrips repaired. Provenance: Fekula 5453.
elegant anthologies of art and literature issued at
the end of the silver age. With contributions by Konstantin
Balmont, Aleksandr Blok, Valerii Briusov, Ivan Bunin, Sergei
Esenin, Nikolai Gumilev, Aleksandr Kuprin, Aleksei Remizov,
Fedor Sologub, Aleksei Tolstoi and others. Graphics by Léon Bakst,
Alexandre Benois, Evegenii Lansere, Dmitrii Mitrokhin, Dmitrii
Moor, Sergei Chekhonin, Viktor Zamirailo and others; printer’s
mark by Bakst. (2)
$1000 – $1500
Lot 163. BELYI, Andrei [Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev] (1880-1934) (editor)].
Zapiski mechtatelei [Dreamers’ Notes]. Petersburg: “Alkonost,” 1919-1922. Numbers 1-6. Large 8vo (240 x 155). Rebound in red leatherette.
Condition: some wrappers absent, final leaf with tape repair to verso.
complete run of of the literary organ of the Kommun Mechatelei [Commune of Dreamers]. With contributions by Anna Akhmotova,
Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Kornei Chukovsky, Vacheslav Ivanov, Vladimir Khodasevich, Aleksei Remizov, Marietta Shaginyan, Vilgelm
Aleksandrovich Zorgenfrei, Fedor Sologub, Evgenii Zamyatin and others. The Soviet authorities were so offended by Zamyatin’s story about
the destruction of the intelligentsia in Petersburg, “Perschera” [“The Cave”] in the January 1922 number (pp. 82-89), that they banned it
from further publication. Number 4 was dedicated to Blok’s memory with tributes by Belyi and Zamyatin; and the final issue (Number 6)
contains memories of Blok by Belyi and Chukovsky. Not in MoMA.
$3000 – $5000
Lot 164. GORKY, Maxim, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Evgenii Zamyatin, Nikolai Radlov,
Kornei Chukovsky, and Vladimir Scherbachev (editors).
Dom iskusstv [House of the Arts]. Petersburg, Numbers 1 and 2 bound in one, 1921. 4to (280 x 210 mm). Rebound in gray cloth with the
original decorated tan wrappers designed by Dobuzhinsky bound in. Condition: very light spotting to front wrapper of Number 1, and minor
chipping to back wrapper of Number 2.
One of 5,000 copies. rare complete run of the important but short-lived art and literary journal. With contributions by
Anna Akhmatova, Iurii Annenkov, Aleksandr Blok, Kornei Chukovsky, Nikolai Gumilev, Vladislav Khodasevich, Mikhail Kuzmin, Osip
Mandelshtam, Nikolai Radlov, Aleksei Remizov, Evgenyi Zemyatin and others. Decorations by Annenkov, Sergei Chekhonin, Dobuzhinsky,
Dmitrii Mitrokhin and others. The criticism includes Blok’s commentary on a production of King Lear and Chukovsky’s comparison of
Akhmatova with Mayakovsky. The second and final issue paid tribute to Blok who had recently died. The editors and contributors were
primarily the authors and artists who gathered round Gorky at his World Literature publishing company in Dom isskustv on Nevsky
Prospekt in Petersburg. The government opened Dom isskustv to provide struggling artists with a place to sleep and eat as well as a library
for their use. Gorky was unhappy with the first issue of the journal (“No spirit”) and his name is missing from the second. Disillusioned with
the Bolsheviks, he left for Sorrento in October. Not in MoMA.
$2000 – $3000
Lot 165. BELYI, Andrei [Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev]
(1880-1934) (editor) and El [Lazar Markovich] LISSITZKY
(1890-1941) (illustrator).
Epopeia. Literurnyi ezhemesiachnik [Epopee. Literary Anthology]. Moscow
and Berlin: “Gelikon,” April 1922. Number 1. 8vo (210 x 140 mm).
273 pp. Original wrappers. Cover designed by Lissitzky in yellow and
black. Condition: covers and endpapers with occasional spotting, minor
chipping to extremities, leaves tanned with minor chipping at edges.
the first volume of four to appear. The fourth and final volume
of Belyi’s influential literary journal was published the following year in
1923. MoMA 403.
$800 – $1200
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Lot 166. LUTOKHIN, D. A. (editor).
Utrenniki [Morning Frosts]. [Petersburg: M. S. Kaufman, April and
June 1922]. 2 volumes. 8vo (225 x 155 mm; 230 x 165 mm).
Original tan wrappers, the second designed by Boris Kustodiev.
Condition: wrappers tanned, backstrips rubbed with slight chipping
to extremities.
complete run of this significant but short-lived literary
journal. With contributions by Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pilnyak,
Fedor Sologub and others. Also reviews of books by Leonid
Andreev, Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Valerei Briusov, Sasha
Chorny, Kornei Chukovsky, Ilya Ehrenburg, Nikolai Gumilev,
Vladislav Khodasevich, Boris Pilnyak, Viktor Shklovskii, Marina
Tsvetaeva, Boris Zaitsev, Evgenyi Zamyatin and others. The second
issue reproduces four fanciful drawings by the Ukrainian artist Viktor
Dmitrevich Zamirailo (1868-1939), including one of Gulliver in
Lilliput. (2)
$1000 – $1500
Lot 167. LISSITZKY, El [Lazar Markovich] (1890-1941) and
Ilya Grigorevich Ehrenburg (1891-1967) (editors).
Vesch/Gegenstand/Objet [Object]. Berlin: Skify, 1922. 32 pp. 4to (310
x 235 mm). Numbers 1 and 2; two parts in one volume Original
decorated red construction paper wrappers designed by Lissitzky.
Condition: occasional light soiling, short split at foot of of fold, a few
small abrasions to lower wrapper.
Lissitzky and Ehrenburg started this short-lived, but important,
periodical to introduce contemporary Russian art to Western
Europe, focusing mainly on new Suprematist and Constructivist
works, with the text in German, French, and Russian. In this first issue,
El Lissitzky wrote: “We consider the triumph of the constructive
method to be essential for our present. We find it not only in the
new economy and in the development of the industry, but also in
the psychology of our contemporaries of art. Veshch will champion
constructive art, whose mission is not, after all, to embellish life, but
to organize it.” Contributors range from Le Courbusier to Vladimir
Mayakovsky to Blaise Cendrars to Boris Pasternak. The third and
final issue was published later the same year. MoMA 410.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 168. LITERARY ALMANACS.
Moskovskii almanakh [The Moscow Almanac]. Moscow: “ Knigoizdatelstva Pisatelei v Moskve,” 1922 and 1923. 2 volumes 8vo (215 x 145 mm;
230 x 155 mm). Original two-color decorated tan wrappers. Condition: small closed tears to front wrapper on second volume
first volume one of 2000 copies; second volume one of 3000 copies. With contributions by Konstantin Balmont, Andrei Belyi,
Aleksandr Blok, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Vladislav Khodasevich, Boris Pasternak, Aleksei Remizov, Boris Zaitsev and others.
[With:] Moskovskii almanakh. Berlin: Ogonek, 1922. 194 pp. 8vo (205 x 145 mm). Original two-color decorated tan wrappers designed by
Aleksandr Arnshtam. Condition: intermittent light soiling to wrappers. With contributions by A. Belyi, A. Remizov and others. (3)
$1000 – $1500
Lot 169. BEREZHANTSKII, N. G. (editor) and Ivan Yakovlevich BILIBIN (1876-1942) (illustrator).
Zlatotsvet. Zhurnal khudozhestvennyi i literaturnyi [The Golden Flower. Art and Literary Journal]. Berlin: Olga Dyakova i Ko., 1924. Number 1. 48
pp. Large Folio (340 x 310 mm). Original gilt decorated wrappers designed by I. Ya. Bilibin. Condition: wrappers lightly tanned with minor
soiling and dampstaining, small tape repair to verso of front wrapper. Original gilt decorated wrappers designed by I. Ya. Bilibin.
apparently the only issue of this beautiful émigré magazine. With contributions by Léon Bakst, Konstantin Balmont, Ivan
Alekseevich Bunin, Elena Danko, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and others.
$1000 – $1500
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Lot 170. LEBEDEV, Vladimir Vasilievich (1891-1967), Vladimir
Ivanovich KOZLINSKII (1891-1969), Aleksei RADAKOV (1877-
1942), Boris ANTONOVSKII and others (illustrators).
Begemot [Hippopotamus]. Leningrad: “Krasnaya Gazeta,” January-
December 1926. Numbers 1-50. 4to (290 x 205 mm). Rebound in
contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Condition: boards rubbed
with slight chipping to extremities; occasional minor spotting to wrappers,
Number 50 with front wrapper detached but present.
rare illustrated humor weekly published at the height of the
nep period. With cartoons by V. V. Lebedev, V. Koslinskii, A. Radakov,
B. Antonovskii and others. This journal satirized not only the growing
horde of middleclass NEP men and women but also peasants, workers,
bureaucrats and Americans. Lebedev signed his studies of Russian street
types with “V. V.”
$1500 – $2000
Lot 171. GALADZHIEV, Petr S. (illustrator).
Kino-zhurnal A. R. K. [Film Journal of A. R. K.]. Moscow: Assotsiatsiya
Revoliutsionnoi Kinematografiii, February 1924. Number 2. 48 pp. Folio
(300 x 230 mm). Original two-color Constructivist wrappers designed
by P. S. Galadzhiev. Condition: minor spotting to covers, short split at fold
extremities.
rare early soviet film trade journal. In addition to articles on Soviet
movie actors and directors and Lenin on film, there are write-ups on
Douglas Fairbanks, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson and Eric von Stroheim.
$500 – $800
Lot 172. LUNACHARSKII, Anatolii Vasilevich (1875-1933),
Vyacheslav P. POLONSKII (1886-1932) and Ivan Ivanovich
STEPANOV-SKVORTSOV (editors).
Krasnaya niva [The Red Field]. Moscow, January 2-December 25, 1927.
Large 4to (297 x 225 mm). Illustrations, some colored. Contemporary
half cloth, original wrappers bound in. Condition: some wrappers shaved
with slight loss, half cloth binding scuffed, joints split, extremities worn,
spine chipped.
one complete volume of the popular and influential soviet
cultural journal. Lunacharskii was appointed the first Soviet People’s
Commissar of Enlightenment by Lenin himself. He and Lenin’s wife
Nadezhda Krupskaya were responsible for overseeing Soviet culture and
education. Red Niva was a general interest magazine that covered literature,
art, entertainment, sports and politics .
$500 – $800
Lot 173. KLUTSIS, Gustav Gustavovich, (1895-1944)
(illustrator).
Sovestky teatr [The Soviet Theater]. Moscow: ZhurGaz, 1930. Issue
Number 1, large 4to (305 x 228 mm). Edited by I. I. Bachelis and
others. Illustrated. Original wrappers, the covers printed in three
colors with a photomontage design by Klutsis. Condition: some light
toning to margins; covers detached, lower outer corner of lower
cover torn away.
Designed by Dmitri Moor and K. Ovsyannikov. Not in MoMA.
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$400 – $600
Lot 174. DE MANTSIARLI, I.V., & N.A. OTSUPA (editors).
Chisla [Number]. Paris: 1930-1934. Parts I-VIII and X only (of
10, lacking part IX) in seven volumes (as issued), small 4to (235
x 185 mm). Titles printed in two colors. Plates and illustrations,
some mounted, some colored. Original wrappers. Condition: some
browning, title to part 6 soiled and with border ruled with blue and
red crayons; wrappers torn with loss, upper cover of part 6 and lower
cover of part 10 lacking, backstrips torn with loss, the loss substantial
to parts 2/3, 5 and 10. (7)
$1500 – $2000
Lot 175. KUNLE, Donat I. (editor).
Fashist [The Fascist]. Putnam, or Thompson, Conn.: Russian
National Revolutionary Party, July 1935-June/July 1940. 22 issues
various (Numbers19, 28-32, 34, 37-41, 44, 45, 47, 51-56 and 58),
folio (430 x 280 mm). Illustrations. Stapled, as issued. Condition: five
issues with some damage to upper outer corners, four other covers
torn with loss, some light soiling to covers, small tears to backstrips.
unusual russian fascist propaganda newspaper published
in america. The former White Russian officers Anastase
Anastasievich Vonsiatsky (1898-1965) as Vogel (Leader) and
Donat I. Kunle as secretary founded in 1933 the Russian National
Revolutionary Labor and Workers Peasant Party of Fascists, also
known as the All Russian National Revolutionary Party. Insisting
that they were not anti-Semitic, they claimed their sole goal was
to overthrow the Soviets and replace them with “a government
elected by the people, of the people and for the people.” Extolling
the virtues of Adolf Hitler in its pages, Fashist was their official organ
and published in Connecticut. Indicted in 1942 for consorting with
German-American Bund, Vonitsky escaped being convicted. (22)
$4000 – $6000
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Lot 176. KARPOVICH, M.M., R. B. GOUL, P. DENIKE,
S.TIMASHEV and others [editors].
Novyi Zhurnal [New Magazine]. New York: 1942-1997. Comprising
128 volumes of various issues (215 x 145 mm). In original wrappers.
Condition: occasional tanning and minor chipping to backstrips.
one of the most important social, political, literary, and
cultural Russian émigré journals. Founded by M.O. Tsetlin
and M.A. Aldanov, Novyi Zhurnal ranks among the oldest and most
influential academic journals of Russian studies. Issue numbers
available upon request. (128)
$1000 – $1500
Lot 177. GRENBERG, R.N., V.L. PLASTUKHOV and others
(editors).
Opyty [Experiments]. New York: 1953-1958. 8vo. Complete set
consisting of volumes 1-9. Original wrappers designed by A.N.
Pregel. Condition: backstrips tanned, volumes 1 and 4 bear library
stamp on front covers, occasional slight chipping to extremities.
With contributions by Iurii Annenkov, Isaac Babel, Vladimir
Nabokov, Boris Pasternak, Aleksei Remizov and others.(9)
$1000 – $1500
Lot 178. ANDREEV, G. A., N. N. VERBEROV, F. T. LEBEDEV,
Iu. A. PISMENYI and others (editors).
Mosty [Bridges]. Munich: TsOPE, 1958-1970. Numbers 1-15 in
14 volumes Condition: backstrips tanned on a few volumes, minor
intermittent soiling to wrappers; small split at tail of backstrip to
volume 12.
complete set of this émigré russian “literary-artistic
and social-political almanach”. With contributions by Iurii
Annenkov, Albert Camus, Ilya Ehrenburg, William Faulkner, Aldous
Huxley, Boris Pasternak, Boris Zaitsev and others. (14)
$600 – $800
Lot 179. ANONYMOUS.
Strashen vrag , po milostiv Bog! [The Enemy is Terrible but God is Merciful!]. Moscow: E. I. Konovalova, February 28, 1904. Chromolithograph
(410 x 585 mm). Depicts a giant Russian soldier stomping across Manchuria and Korea after the fleeing Japanese army while Uncle Sam
(“Yanki”) negotiates with the Japanese and Chinese in the background. Framed.
This jingoistic poster is highly misleading: The Russo-Japanese War was a strategic disaster for Russia; and the humiliating series of defeats
to the Japanese through the wasteful and corrupt tsarist government enflamed public discontent and led directly to the Russian Revolution
of 1905.
$1000 – $1500
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Lot 180. ANONYMOUS.
Komanduiuschii Kaskazskoi Armiei General-Leitenant Baron Petr
Nikolaevich Vrangel [Commandant of the Cossack Army General-
Lieutenant Baron Petr Nikolaevich Vrangel]. 1919. Lithograph
(550 x 405 mm). Framed. A rare example of a pro-White
Army poster.
[With:] Pro scho mrie Vrangel. Khan Krimskii i Samoderzhets Vcerosiiskii
[What is Vrangel dreaming about? — About becoming Khan of Crimea
and Ruler of Russia]. 1920. Chromolithograph (765 x 580 mm).
Framed.
Baron Petr Nikolaevich Vrangel (1878-1928) was an officer in the
Imperial Russian Army when the October Revolution broke out and
he fled to the Crimea where he joined the White Army. In 1920, he
was elected commander-in-chief of the White forces in the Crimea.
But humiliating defeats to the Red Army left him with only half of his
standing army and they fled to the Black Sea. Many of them followed
him into exile. Not all Russians thought Baron Petr Vrangel was a
hero as the second bitter anti-White poster suggests.
$3000 – $5000
Lot 181. ANONYMOUS.
A nashego to polku pribylo… [Our numbers have grown…]. Petrograd:
Izdanie V. T. [?], circa 1914. Number 3. (345 x 520 mm). Framed.
A satirical comment on the strength of the Russians to combat the
German threat during World War I.
$1500 – $2000
Lot 182. APSIT, Alexandr.
Mschene tsaryam (Varshavyanka) [Revenge on the Tsars]. Moscow:
VTSIK, 1918. Colored lithograph (1125 x 660 mm). The text is
that of a Polish working class song, translated into Russian by G.M.
Krzhizhanocskii in 1897.
Butnik-Siverskii 335; Polonskii, Russian revoliutsionnyi plakat
(Moscow, 1925), p. 30.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 183. BYKHOVSKY, Aleksandr.
Krasnyi nabat [The Red Alarm Bell]. Gomel [Belarus]: Gomelskoe
otdelenie Gosizdata, 1920. Chromolithograph (740 x 460 mm).
Butnik-Siverskii 280; reprinted in Baburina, The Soviet Political
Poster, pl. 9.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 184. CHEREMNYKH, Mikhail (1890-1962).
Rossiiskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Federativnay Sovetskaya Respublika
[Russian Socialist Federation of Soviet Republics].
c. 1920. Lithograph (710 x 495 mm). Framed. Russian propaganda
poster featuring the misfortunes of Russian peasants under the
imperial rule. Cheremnykh worked for ROSTA (Rossiyskoye
telegrafnoye agentstvo), or the Russian Telegraph Agency. He
created the first ROSTA window of stenciled propaganda posters,
and was soon joined by Mayakovsky, Moor and Rodchenko among
others.
$800 – $1200
Lot 185. DENI, Viktor (1893-1946).
Podlezhit unichtozheniiu [Must Be Destroyed].
Lithograph (580 x 395 mm). Anti-war poster depicting a figure of a
Western plutocrat sitting atop a pile of military supplies. The scene is
accompanied by a poem by Demian Bednyi. Framed.
Deni was born in Moscow in 1893 and published his first drawings
in a satirical journal at the age of seventeen. In 1913 he moved to St.
Petersburg where his work appeared in numerous other publications.
He was one of the most acerbic Russian political cartoonists.
$1500 – $2000
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Lot 186. DENI, Viktor (1893-1946).
Kazhdyi udar molota-udar po vragu! [Every Stroke of the Hammer — Is
A Stroke Against the Enemy!]. 1920. Chromolithograph (715 x 1055
mm). Number 103. Framed.
$1200 – $1800
Lot 187. KOZLINSKII, Vladimir Ivanovich (1891-1969).
Da zdravstvuet avangard revolutsii Krasnyi Flot [Long Live the Vanguard
of the Revolution: the Red Navy]. Pertrograd: Politotdel [Revolutionar-
Military Council of the Baltic], 1919. Linocut (655 x 480 mm).
Formerly atttributed to Vladimir Lebedev. See Tradition and
Revolution in Graphic Art (Mamchester, 1990, p. 111, n. 39), for a
discussion of the re-attribution of the poster by Nolai Shkolnyi to
Kozlinskii, a central artist behind the Petrograd ROSTA windows.
Butnik-Siverskii 1025; White p. 85; The Soviet Poltical Poster, pl. 22.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 188. KUPREYANOV, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1894-1933).
Grazhdane khranite pamyatniki iskusstva [Citizens, Preserve the Historic
Monuments]. Lithograph (760 x 510 mm). Framed.
Kupreyanov was a versatile Soviet graphic artist who distinguished
himself as a poster artist and an agile agitational propagandist.
During the Russian Civil War, many fervent Bolsheviks were
determined to destroy all remnants of the tsarist past. It was largely
through the intervention of Anatoly Lunacharsky as Commissar of
Enlightenment that many of Russia’s treasures were saved.
$1200 – $1800
Lot 189. MALIUTIN, Ivan A. (1889-1932).
Svobody zasluzhivaet tolko tot, kto ee s vintovkoi otstaivat idet [Only He
Deserves Freedom, Who Goes to Defend it with a Rifle]. Moscow: GIZ,
1920. Two color lithograph (522 x 555 mm).
Butnik-Siverskii 1675; White 4.19; Viacheslav Polonskii, Russkii
revoliutsionnyi plakat (Moscow, 1925), fp. 150.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 190. MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir Vladimirovich
(1893-1930).
Na boi krovavyi vpered so slavoi! Divis Imperiya vot nasha artilleryaa
[Gloriously into the bloody fray! Empire, behold our artillery!]. Petrograd:
V.F.T., 1914. Chromolithograph (530 x 365 mm).
a typically anti-tsarist call to revolutionary action by
the poet and artist who sought the creation of a “new man” in art and
life in Soviet Russia.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 191. MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir Vladimirovich
(1893-1930).
Vidish/Etikh zhduschikh kuchki… [Look/To this group of waiting
people…]. 1930. Color lithograph (420 x 560 mm). Propaganda
poster featuring the image of Mayakovsky and text from one of his
poems. Framed.
[With:] CHAGALL, Marc (1887-1985). Pour les 70 ans de
Maïakovski. Print (675 x 495 mm). Poster for a performance at
the Theatre de Palais Chaillot marking the 70th anniversary of
Mayakovsky’s birth. Framed.
$2500 – $3500
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Lot 192. MEIERKHOLD, Vsevolod Emilevich (1874-1940).
Vs. Meierkholda Revizor N. V. Gogola [Vsevolod Meierkhold’s “The Inspector General” by N. V. Gogol]. 1926. Two color lithograph (1080 x 730 mm).
Framed.
poster for his landmark production of gogol’s fierce satire. Meierkhold was a revolutionary figure in the Russian avant-garde
theater. For his early productions at Imperial theatres of St. Petersburg, he secured designs by Alexander Golovin, Léon Bakst, Mstislav
Dobuzhinsky, Sergei Sudeikin and other members of the Mir iskusstva [World of Art] group. Both Golovin and Boris Grigoriev painted his
portrait. He demanded a “conditional theater” in opposition to naturalism. Among the many people whom he profoundly influenced was
the great filmmaker Sergei Eisentstein who studied with him. Meierkhold’s stubborn opposition to Social Realism led to his demise. His
experimental theater was closed in 1938 and the next year he was arrested, imprisoned, tortured and finally executed by firing squad in 1940.
It was not until 1955 that he was officially “rehabilitated” during the first wave of Krushchev’s anti-Stalin campaign.
$4000 – $6000
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Lot 193. MELNIKOV, Dmitri.
Chto vy stali chernym stanom? Vse dolzhnyi otdat krestyanam, umiraischim ot goloda [With kopecks collected from peasants, the Church bought gold and
silver trappings...it should give it all back to the peasants dying from starvation].
Moscow: Moskust, 1922. Chromolithograph (1010 x 640 mm). Backed on linen. Butnik-Siverskii 2755. Reproduced in Baburina, Soviet
Politcal Poster, pl. 38; Butnik-Siverskii, p. 692; and Viacheslav Polonskii, Russkii revoliutsionnyi playat (Moscow, 1925), opp. p. 116.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 194. MUKHANOV, V.
Moi kapriz [My Caprice]. Gouache on paper (760 x 410 mm). Signed in Cyrillic center right. Framed.
Original design for a poster advertising a tobacco factory in Baku.
$800 – $1000
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Lot 195. POZHEDAEV, Georgii Anatol’evich (1897-1971).
Coq d’Or. Paris: H. Chachoin, 1928. Full color lithograph (1120 x 780 mm). Framed.
Pozhedaev’s exuberant advertisment for the famous Rimsky-Korsakov opera based on Alexander Pushkin’s 1834 poem “The Tale of the
Golden Cockerel” (itself based on two chapters of Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving). The opera was completed in 1907 and
received its premiere in Moscow in 1909, after the composer’s death. Pozhedaev’s baroque illustration captures the essence of this burlesque
of overindulgence and absurdity.
$3000 – $5000
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Lot 196. “RE-MI” [REMIZOV, Nikolai Vladimirovich
(1887-1975)].
Golod v Germaniy [Hunger in Germany]. Lithograph in colors, printed
by A.P. Korkin and A.V. Beideman Publishing House, Moscow.
Number 185. Framed (575 x 345 mm).
Remizov was a popular cartoonist in the tradition of the German
humorist Wilhelm Busch. He contributed to a number of satirical
magazines as did his sister “Miss” [Anna Vladimirovna Remizova].
His most important work was the illustrations for Kornei Chukovsky’s
children’s classic Krokodil [Crocodile] in 1918. He also
designed for Nikita Balieff ’s cabaret Chauve-souris (The Bat).
$1500 – $2500
Lot 197. ROGOVSKY, A.
Vpered, v Moskvu! [Advance to Moscow!]. c. 1920. Propaganda poster
made for Siberian Cossack Army (525 x 720 mm). Backed on linen
and framed. Depicts a Cossack in the service of the White Army
about to strike the Red serpent, emerging from a burning Moscow.
$2000 – $3000
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Lot 198. SUDEIKIN, Sergei Iurevich [Serge Soudeikine] (1882-1946).
[Chauve-souris]. Color lithograph, c. 1921, issued by L’Atelier de PUBLICITÉ d’art “Loubok,” Paris (1140 x 790 mm). Provenance: sale
Swann 21 Apr 2005, lot 69.
a dramatic illustration that beautifully summarizes Sudeikin’s considerable contributions to modern Russian stage design. Trained as
a painter in Moscow, he went to Paris in 1913 to work with Sergei Diaghilev on the Ballets Russes. He returned in 1920 with the Chauvesouris
troupe, the famous cabaret founded in 1908 by Nikita Balieff. The company fled Russia in 1918 for Paris, where they performed for
two years and then moved on to New York. In this handsome poster, a mischievous pierrot peeks behind a huge curtain and reveals a large
bat flying between Moscow and Paris.
$12000 – $18000
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Lot 199. ALTMAN, Natan Isaevich (1889-1970).
S’ezd rabotnits i kresyanok Severnoi oblasti [Conference of Women Workers and Peasant Women from the Northern District]. Color lithographed
proof of the cover of an unpublished exhibition catalogue. 440 x 625 mm. Initialed and dated 1919 in the plate.
one of only two known copies. Altman was a Russian avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator. He initially
studied painting and sculpture in Odessa (1902-1907), before studying in Paris for a year in 1910. There he met, among others, Marc
Chagall, Alexander Archipenko, and David Shterenberg. In the same year he became a member of the group Soyuz Molodyozhi [Union of
Youth]. In 1912 Altman moved to St. Petersburg. His famous Cubist portrait of Anna Akhmatova was painted in 1914. From 1915 to 1917
he taught at Mikhail Bernstein’s private art school. After 1916 he started to work as a stage designer. Lenin believed that the creation of the
Committees for Peasant Poverty in late 1917 marked the beginning of “the Revolution in rural districts.” This is one of three Constructivist
brochure covers designed for these conferences: Malevich in 1918; Lissitzky in 1919; and Altman also in 1919. The back wrappers for these
brochures carry the slogan “Proletarii vsekh stran soedinyaites” (“Proletarians of All Countries Unite”). Not in MoMA, NYPL, Getty or BM.
See Etkind 1971, p. 118, Pl. 47; Etkind 1984, p. 50; and Lang, p. 96.
$30000 – $40000
Art & Illustration
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Lot 200. ALTMAN, Natan Isaevich (1889-1970).
Klub khudozhnikov [Artist’s Club]. 1919. Linocut (115 x 150 mm). Initialed and dated in the plate. Matted.
$800 – $1200
Lot 201. ALTMAN, Natan Isaevich (1889-1970).
Cubo-Futurist sketch for poster advertising Kultura liga [Culture League] graphic exhibition with drawing on reverse. 1922. India ink on paper.
(185 x 101 mm).
Initialed and dated lower left. Inscribed with critical comments regarding revolutionary events in Russia along the left margin. The verso
depicts an entwined Cubo-Futurist couple and a title in Hebrew. Provenance: purchased from Aleksander Leonidovich Pasternak, brother of
the poet and novelist Boris Pasternak c. 1985.
Kultur liga was a famous cultural and political association of Jewish artists from the 1920s and 1930s in Russia and other parts of Eastern
Europe. The exhibition featured the graphic work of the prominent Jewish artists Altman, Marc Chagall and David Shterenberg and ran
in Moscow from March-April 1922. Altman laid this drawing in a book he gave A. L. Pasternak in 1966. Mark Etkind’s Nathan Altman
(Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1984) reproduces the final version of the Kultur liga poster on p. 178; a drawing similar to that on the reverse
appears on p. 78.
$8000 – $12000
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Lot 202. BENOIS, Alexandre [Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benua] (1870-1960).
Costume design. 1946. Watercolor and ink on paper (240 x 160 mm). Signed with initials and dated lower left. Inscribed “Le Roi Neu [?]”
upper right and “Le Foule, Une petit bonne” upper right. Framed.
Drawn by one of the founding members and central figures of Mir iskusstva and the Ballets Russes.
$3000 – $4000
Lot 203. BENOIS, Alexandre [Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benua] (1870-1960).
Two costume designs for a lantern-holder and a guard in “Skazke o tsare Saltane.” 1928. Watercolor and colored crayons, heightened with white
(each 490 x 305 mm). Both signed and dated lower right, titled “Saltan” and inscribed with instructions to the dressmaker. Framed. Provenance:
sale Sotheby’s New York 22 Jun 1983.
Two costume designs for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s ballet in two scenes based on Alexandre Pushkin’s Skazke o tsare Saltane [The Tale of
Tsar Saltan] and produced by Les Ballets de Mme. Ida Rubenstein at the Théatre National de l’Opéra, Paris, November 29, 1928. Bronislava
Nijinska, the sister of the legendary Nijinsky, choreographed the dance while Benois designed the sets and costumes.
$5000 – $8000
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Lot 204. BENOIS, Nicola (1901-1988).
Set design for “The Inspector General.” 1925. Gouache on paper laid on board (440 x 595 mm). Inscribed, signed and dated July 3, 1925 lower
right. Framed. The inscription reads in Cyrillic “To dear and beloved Nikolai Argutinskii from Koka Benois.”
The Inspector General is Gogol’s satirical play, published in 1836 and revised for the 1842 edition. Based on an anecdote allegedly recounted
to Gogol by Pushkin, this comedy of errors portrays human greed, stupidity, and the deep corruption of power in tsarist Russia.
$30000 – $50000
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Lot 205. CHALIAPIN, Boris (1904-1979).
Portrait of Madame Elena Balieff. 1937. Oil on canvas (630 x 520 mm). Signed, dated and inscribed “N.Y.” (lower left). Framed. Exhibited:
A World of Stage: Russian Designs for Theatre, Opera, and Dance: 17 Apr -27 May 2007, Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido; 9 Jun -16 Jul 2007,
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; 26 Jul -17 Sep 2007, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum; 29 Sep - 28 Oct 2007; Aomori
Museum of Art. Illustrated: Rosenfeld and others, A World of Stage: Russian Designs for Theater, Opera, and Dance; Art Impression Inc., Tokyo,
2007, p. 157.
The son of the legendary Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin was a distinguished modern portrait painter. He is perhaps best remembered
for over 400 covers he produced for Time for twenty-eight years from Nehru to Nixon. Elena Balieff (née Kommissarzhevskii) was a famous
Russian actress at the Théâtre de la Chauve-souris and wife of its founder Nikita Balieff.
$25000 – $35000
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Lot 206. BOBYSHEV, Mikhail (1885-1964).
Costume design. 1912. Watercolor, graphite and metallic paint on paper (455 x 280 mm). Signed in Cyrillic and dated lower right; indistinctly
inscribed upper right. Framed. Exhibited: A World of Stage: Russian Designs for Theatre, Opera, and Dance: 17 Apr -27 May 2007, Kushiro Art
Museum, Hokkaido; 9 Jun -16 Jul 2007, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; 26 Jul -17 Sep 2007, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien
Museum; 29 Sep - 28 Oct 2007; Aomori Museum of Art. Illustrated: Rosenfeld and others, A World of Stage: Russian Designs for Theater,
Opera, and Dance; Art Impression Inc., Tokyo, 2007, p. 117.
Costume design for the character of Knigiana in Fedor Solugub’s play Vanka-Kliuchnik i Pazh Zhean [Vanka the Butler and Page Jean]. This
particular design was made for the production at the V. F. Kommissarzhevskaya Theatre, St. Petersburg.
$3000 – $5000
Lot 207. CHEKHONIN, Sergei Vasilevich (1878-1936).
Elegance and Dignity. 2 hand-colored lithographs. (each 565 x 430 mm). Each signed by in pencil lower right.
Although remembered primarily for his Ballets Russes designs, Sergei Chekhonin was one of the most accomplished Russian graphic artists
of his generation. He was a prolific illustrator of magazines and books during both the Silver Age and the early Soviet period. He emigrated
in 1928 and settled in Paris where he continued to illustrate magazines and design costumes, porcelain and posters. (2)
$6000 – $8000
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Lot 208. DOBUZHINSKY, Mstislav Valeryanovich (1875-1957).
Set design for “The Barber of Seville”. 1918. Pencil and ink on paper (330 x 330 mm). Signed with monogram and dated lower right; and
inscribed in Cyrillic lower center. Framed.
As demonstrated in this lovely sketch for the famous Rossini opera, Dobuzhinsky was one of the most versatile artists of the Mir iskusstva
[World of Art] group. He frequently drew costumes for the Ballets Russes and other theatrical troupes and was also a gifted teacher whose
students included Marc Chagall and Vladimir Nabokov. After the Russian Revolution, he fled to Lithuania. He worked in the theater all over
Europe before eventually settling in the United States.
$6000 – $8000
Lot 209. DOBUZHINSKY, Mstislav Valeryanovich (1875-1957).
View of Vitebsk in winter. 1923. Lithograph (340 x 410 mm). Signed in pencil lower right; marked with monogram, dated and inscribed
“Vitebsk” lower left. Framed.
$1000 – $1500
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Lot 208

Lot 210. GONCHAROVA, Natalya Sergeevna (1881-1962).
Des Fleures. Color lithograph (305 x 230 mm). Marked twice with artist’s stamp lower right. Framed. Exhibited: May-June, 1977, Libreria &
Galleria Pan, Rome.
Goncharova was a prominent figure in the pre-Revolutionary Moscow avant-garde, in which women commanded an unusual degree of
freedom and respect. Her first work in the field of lithographic publishing was her illustrations to Kruchenykh and Khlebnikov’s 1912 book
length poem Igra v adu [A Game in Hell], and she is considered to be the first Russian artist to use the technique of collage in book design.
Goncharova was a radical both in art and life. She and Mikhail Larionov lived together for decades as an unmarried couple. They finally
married in 1955 to ensure that whoever survived the other could inherit his or her paintings.
$4000 – $6000
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Lot 211. GONCHAROVA, Natalya Sergeevna (1881-1962).
Poster design. 1935. Mixed media (color pencils, collage) on paper (230 x 172 mm). Provenance: bears the stamp of “Atelier M. Larionov” on
the verso, affixed by Larionov’s second wife, Alexandra Tomilina.
Preliminary design for the cover of the score El Amour Bruje by Manuel de Falla. From the Ballets de Leon Woizikovsky — European tour,
1935, Theatre Coliseum, London.
$4000 – $6000
Lot 212. GONCHAROVA, Natalya Sergeevna (1881-1962).
Christmas greeting. [N.d.]. Ink on paper. (127 x 280 mm). A holiday card in ink with floral motifs that includes a hand-written letter in French
from A. Larionova to Mr. Fletcher on the back. Provenance: bears the stamp of “Atelier M. Larionov” on the verso, affixed by Larionov’s
second wife, Alexandra Tomilina.
$2500 – $3500
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Lot 213. GONCHAROVA, Natalya Sergeevna (1881-1962) and LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964).
L’art décoratif théatral moderne. Paris: Édition “La Cible”, 1919. Folio (471 x 310 mm). Title with vignette in red and black. 16 plates (6 by or
after Goncharova [2 mounted and colored, 1 two-color lithograph, 1 three-color lithograph, 2 hand-colored using the pochoir process];
10 by or after Larionov [1 uncolored, 1 mounted and colored, 2 printed in two colors, 6 hand-colored pochoirs with two of these printed
on brown paper]). Expertly rebound to style in paper wrappers, the majority of the original upper wrapper laminated onto the upper cover.
Condition: two final plates shaved with the loss of the majority of each signature, discoloration to leaf with signatures and numbering; covers
discolored.
limited edition to 515 copies, this copy numbered 60 and signed by goncharova and larionov, one of 500 copies numbered in
Roman numerals. “Larionov and Goncharova celebrated their arrival in Paris with a large exhibition of their theatrical work in May 1919 at
the Galerie Barbazanges…Th[is] impressive folio was published concurrently with the exhibition” (Parton, p.178).
$30000 – $40000
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Lot 214. KAPLAN, Anatoli Lvovich (1902-1980).
Odinadtsat pesen iz evreiskoi narodnoi poezii [Eleven Songs from Jewish Folk Poetry]. [Leningrad: ] 1977. Folio (446 x 346 mm). Dry-points
throughout: title with decorative vignette (verso blank), list of contents (verso blank), 11 plates, all by Kaplan, each signed in pencil beneath
the image and numbered in pencil “11/15”. Unbound as issued within the original cloth portfolio, cloth ties. Condition: small blue ink spots
to verso of final plate; portfolio lightly soiled. Provenance: purchased directly from the artist in 1978.
number 11 of 15 sets with each leaf signed by the artist. From the 1950s on, Kaplan devoted his art to Jewish themes. Consequently, he was
constantly harassed and threatened by the Soviet cultural police. He also illustrated Shalom Aleichem’s Tevye the Milkman (3 series, 1957-
1966), The Enchanted Tailor (1954-57) and Song of Songs (1962), and prepared a magnificent series of colored lithographs for the traditional
Passover song Chad Gadya [A Little Goat]. Despite the title page, the music by Dmitri Shoshtakovich is not included with this suite. “[His
illustrations] are outside tradition; they are intensely literary; and they reflect nothing more recent than the world of Gogol. They are also so
brilliantly good that in comparison Chagall seems like a clumsy amateur“ (Brookner, p. 361).
$15000 – $20000
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Lot 215. KHUDYAKOV, Andrei.
Russian village. 1936. Gouache on artist board (500 x 285 mm). Signed and dated lower right; indistinctly inscribed on reverse. Framed.
Khudyakov began his career in theatrical design at the Moscow Art theater. He then worked for the Berlin based cabaret company Der Blaue
Vogel that was active during the particularly potent early 1920s when the German capital attracted a host of personalities, ideas and events.
Khudyakov’s colleagues at Der Blaue Vogel included such notables as Boguslavskaya and Tschelischtchew. Nabokov, Belyi, Puni, Lissitzky,
Altman and Ehrenburg are but a few of the Russian writers and artists who were there at the time. Subsequent to his participation in the
fertile Russina èmigrè community in Berlin, Khudyakov worked in Nikita Balieff ’s Chauve-souris as well as drawing praise for his book
illustrations. Eventually he emigrated to the US, and for a time worked for the WPA Federal Theater Projects.
$4000 – $6000
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Lot 216. KLEVER, Julius Sergius von (1850-1924).
Sketch for “Depth of the Forest’” 1912. Oil on canvas (345 x 515 mm). Signed in Cyrillic and dated lower left. Inscribed in Cyrillic on reverse;
“Finished sketch for a large painting Depth of the Forest exhibited in the autumn exhibition of the Friendship of Artists in 1915. Professor
Julius Klever.” Framed.
Julius Sergius von Klever attended the gymnasium in Dorpat. From 1867, he studied landscape painting under Michail Klodt at the Imperial
Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. He held his first exhibition outside Russia in 1873; in 1878 he became a member of the Imperial Academy
in St. Petersburg and in 1881 a professor of landscape painting. He was known particularly for his exploration of the effects created by the
light of the Russian sunsets on the vast snowy expanses of the forest in winter. The Russian woods in spring also inspired him as did beach
scenes. He died in St. Petersburg in 1924.
$50000 – $80000
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Lot 217. KUSTODIEV, Boris (1878-1927).
Sketch and proof. 1927. A preparatory sketch for linocut from the unrealized series Narodnie Kartiny [Folk Pictures], together with a proof
of the linocut (each 360 x 245 mm). Sketch signed with monogram lower left and inscribed in Russian with a traditional chastushka: “I
was gathering wild berries and accidentally broke its stem; my darling prefers a simple cat to a fancy hat”; the proof is marked with artist’s
monogram in Cyrillic and dated 1927. Framed separately.
b. m. kustodiev was the finest russian portrait painter of his generation. Before the Russian Revolution, he was famous for his
zaftig nudes and embraced the Bolshevik cause in his subsequent work. His canvases reflected his deep affection for both the old and the
new. This exuberant drawing and proof express the artists great affection for the Russian peasant.
$5000 – $8000
Lot 218. LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964).
Kikimora. Color lithograph (365 x 265 mm). Marked with the artist’s monogram upper right. Framed.
A compelling example of Larionov’s synthesis of neo-primitivism and avant-garde experimentation. Larionov was a founding member of
two important Russian artistic groups: Jack of Diamonds (1909-1911) and the more radical Donkey’s Tail (1912-1913). His first one man
show ran for one day in Moscow in 1911. In 1913 he created Rayonism, that is largely regarded as the first expression of near-abstract art in
Russia. In 1915 he left Russia and worked with Sergei Diaghilev in Paris on the productions of the Ballet Russes. An iconoclast till the end,
Larionov upheld both an artistic devotion for and an irreverence toward any and all received notions of what it meant to be an artist.
$1000 – $1500
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Lot 219. LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964).
Reclining woman with dog and cat. 1937. Pencil and watercolor on paper (240 x 365 mm). Signed with monogram, dated January 1937, and
inscribed in Cyrillic “To dear Vladimir Nikolaevich at Maxim’s in Paris” at upper left. Framed.
A fine example of Larionov’s figure paintings of the period and a keen display of the artist’s cosmopolitanism both in subject matter and in
the inscription that references the long famous destination for Parisian gourmands. “As Yuri Annenkov shrewdly noted, Larionov’s works
of the 1930s possess a musical quality, created by a precision which the artist only attained after years of experience…Annenkov’s critique
of these paintings characterizes them succinctly, and differentiates them in spirit, style and execution from those of earlier periods. They
are among Larionov’s most profound and poignant paintings and it is unfortunate that, because they do not belong to the heroic period of
Larionov’s creativity, they are not better known and appreciated” (Parton, pp. 208-209).
$12000 – $18000
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Lot 220. LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964).
Peacock. Pochoir (510 x 295 mm). With artist’s stamp lower right and numbered 103 of 150. Framed.
Separate printing from this dynamic illustration in Goncharova and Larionov’s L’Art decoratif theatral moderne.
$2500 – $3500
Lot 221. LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964).
Pink and Brown. 1923. Lithograph (460 x 335 mm). Signed in pencil lower right. Framed. Exhibited: Concepts in Construction: 1910-1980, 27
Jan - 31 March 1985 Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, NY; Russian Avant-Garde from the Schreiber Collection, 20
Jan - 9 March, 1986, the William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut.
The same image was used on the cover of Mayakovksy’s poem Solntse [The Sun], published in Moscow in June 1923. The present work was
reproduced as an independent graphic for Bauhaus Mappe Number 4 that appeared at the same time. Dr. A. Parton, Mikhail Larionov and the
Russian Avant-Garde (Princeton, 1993), p. 192 and fig. 188.
$8000 – $12000
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Lot 222. LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964).
Cubistic still life. 1907. Watercolor on paper (180 x 250 mm). Initialed lower left, and dated lower right; signed “Larionov” and initialed on
reverse. Provenance: bears the stamp of “Atelier M. Larionov” on the verso, affixed by Larionov’s second wife, Alexandra Tomilina.
cubist inspired still-life with newspaper, grapes, and glasses.
$4000 – $6000
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Lot 223. LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964).
Woman with two birds. Ink and watercolor on paper (235 x 305 mm). Initialed lower right. Matted and framed.
a wonderful example of larionov’s typically wry and engaging humor. Depicts a woman with a distended belly (perhaps
pregnant) releasing one bird as it takes flight and with her left hand clutching a protesting and sanguinary second bird. Larionov greatly
valued the appearance of chance in his drawings, as an expression of spontaneity in the creative process. This peculiarity in his work was
noted by David Burliuk in 1912, who compared it to the poetic principles of Khlebnikov: “M. Larionov’s soldier pictures represent the best
examples of free drawing…an analogy in poetry would be vers libre, of which the only and the finest representative in modern poetry is
Viktor (Velimir) Khlebnikov.”
$6000 – $8000
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Lot 224. LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964).
Portrait through the branches [Voyage en Turquie]. c. 1928. Watercolor on paper (250 x 196 mm).
Initialed lower left. The initial sketch for the larger pochoir (stencil) print published in 1928. Provenance: bears the stamp of “Atelier M.
Larionov” on the verso, affixed by Larionov’s second wife, Alexandra Tomilina (sale Sotheby’s New York, 21 Apr 2005, lot 261). The present
Japanese-inspired work is from a folio series that Larionov produced around 1928 entitled Le Voyage en Turquie: 32 Pochoirs.
$3000 – $5000
Lot 225. LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964).
Postcard. c. 1915. Gouache and watercolor (145 x 92 mm). Rayonist design, stamped with monogram lower right. Provenance: bears the
stamp of “Atelier M. Larionov” on the verso, affixed by Larionov’s second wife, Alexandra Tomilina. A dramatically painted Rayonist design
$5000 – $8000
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Lot 226. LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964).
Two drawings. 1914. Ink on paper (214 x 284 mm). Drawing of Igor
Stravinsky conducting an orchestra. Initialed and dated.
[With:] Ink on paper (215 x 160 mm). A satirical portrait of Nikita
Balieff. Framed separately.
A playful caricature of the impresario replete with beanie and
bowtie, along with a drawing of the great composer on the stage.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 227. LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964).
Self portrait. 1909. Ink on paper (270 x 195 mm). Initialed and
dated lower left. Framed.
a shrewd and self-effacing drawing from the pioneering
Russian avant-gardist.
$1500 – $2000
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Lot 228. LEBEDEV, Vladimir Vasilievich (1891-1967).
Commune kitchen. 1924. Pencil and watercolor on paper (165 x 140 mm). Signed with initials in Cyrillic and dated lower right and further
signed and dated on reverse. Framed.
Lebedev started his career as a graphic designer when he was only fourteen years old by drawing postcards and within a few years he became
a successful cartoonist and a prolific illustrator of children’s books. He was a master at sketching satirical scenes of early Soviet life. Here
he depicts an altercation in a commune kitchen in which the comrades are accused of stealing food. Note that the artist has indicated the
pattern of the formidable woman’s skirt by painting over a piece of textured fabric.
$1500 – $2000
Lot 229. LISSIM, Simon (1900-1981).
View of Venice. Gouache on board (745 x 590 mm). Signed and dated 1959 lower right. Framed.
Lissim began his career in theater design at the Kiev state Theater, where he met the influential painter and designer Alexandra Exter. He
immigrated to Germany in 1919, and by 1921 had settled in Paris. At this time he began working at the Russian art publishing house of
A. Kogan where he met such important artists as Soudeikine, Benois and Bakst. In addition to his work in the theater, Lissim published
articles on Bakst and on questions of the decorative arts in the theater and edited the international art journal Revue de l’oeuvre (1923-
1925). In 1941 he immigrated to New York, where he taught a long-running course in stage design at the City College of New York
(1944-1971).
$18000 – $25000
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Lot 230. LUKOMSKII, Georgii Kreskentevich (1884-1954).
Paysage d’Italie. Pastel on paper (290 x 220 mm). Signed lower left. Framed.
Graphic artist, architectural critic and historian, Lukomskii studied in the Architectural School at St. Petersburg’s Academy of Arts. In 1909,
a solo exhibition of his work was held in the editorial offices of the important art periodical Apollon; his Italian sketches appeared alongside
the first publication of Aleksandr Blok’s “Verses on Italy” in Apollon ( Number 4, 1910).
$3000 – $5000
Lot 231. MALYAVIN, Filip (1869-1940).
Young peasant woman. Pastel on paper (510 x 400 mm). Signed lower right. Framed.
Born in the village of Kazanka on the Volga into an illiterate peasant family, Malyavin taught himself to draw at a young age. He soon came to
the public’s attention through his boldly executed and colorful depictions of peasant life. Perhaps as a result of his humble origins, he found
himself as unofficial court painter of the Bolsheviks, and sketched many leaders (Lenin, Trotsky, Lunacharsky) in the Kremlin during1920-
21. He emigrated to France the following year.
$4000 – $6000
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Lot 232. POZHEDAEV, Georgii Anatolevich (1897-1971).
Three gypsy dancers with tambourines. 1937. Charcoal, watercolor and gold pigment on paper (450 x 595 mm). Signed “Georges A. de
Pogedaieff ” and dated 1937 lower left. Framed.
Pozhedaev entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1915 after serving in the Imperial Army. In 1916, he
entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Art, leaving the following year to work as a designer for Théatre Intime. In 1920, he émigrated to
Romania and shortly thereafter, to Prague, where he created sets for Anna Pavlova’s ballet company. Pozhedaev moved to Paris in 1925
to work in Nikita Baleiff ’s Théatre de la Chauve-souris. In 1937 he abandoned stage design and moved on to painting scenes of Paris and
Provence, colorful still lives and graphic portraits as well as acquiring a reputation as a great master of book illustrations. Over the years
he worked on an extensive list of the Russian classics including works by Gogol, Pushkin, Lermontov, Dostoevsky and many others. He
is generally considered among the finest of the considerable group of Russian émigré artists working in cabaret and theatrical design in
Western Europe in the 1920s.
$20000 – $30000
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Lot 233. POZHEDAEV, Georgii Anatolevich (1897-1971).
Spanish dancer. 1930. Mixed media on paper (485 x 305 mm). Signed, dated and inscribed lower left. Framed.
Along with his work in Paris with Balieff ’s Theatre de la Chauve-souris, Pozhedaev decorated numerous performances for the Russian
repertoire in Madrid and Barcelona. The present work reflects his later engagement with Spanish culture while still displaying his aesthetic
preoccupations with the art of movement and the theatrical.
$5000 – $8000
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Lot 234. PUNI, Ivan Albertovich [Jean Pougny] (1894-1956).
Puni. Petrograd. Suprematist artist’s book with collages, cutouts and paintings, circa 1920. (140 x 105 mm). Original patterned paper wrappers
with a collage on the front and a gouache affixed to the inside of the back wrapper. Provenance: Puni archive with artist’s personal stamp on
the back wrapper.
Puni was one of the most radical of Russian avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century. After studying abroad in Paris, he joined
Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist group of artists that included Aleksandra Exter, Ivan Kliun, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, and his future
wife Ksenia Boguslavskaya. He also organised two key exhibitions of the Russian avant-garde in Petrograd, “Tramway W” in 1915 and the
last Futurist exhibition “0.10” in 1916. In 1919 he taught at the Vitebsk Art School with Marc Chagall. In 1920 he émigrated with his wife,
stopping first in Germany and then settling in France where he changed his name to Jean Pougny. This unpublished book is a work of art
unto itself. In addition to the lettered collage on the front cover, there are nonsense words cut out of pages, plucked from an unidentified
Russian pamphlet, with the pages behind painted to give the letters various colors. A gouache collage is attached to a later leaf and a stunning
small Suprematist goauche is afixed to the recto of the back wrapper.
$15000 – $20000
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Lot 235. PUNI, Ivan Albertovich [Jean Pougny] (1894-1956).
Ty [You]. Gouache of a Suprematist man painted on a postcard, circa 1920. (140 x 90 mm).
Provenance: Puni archive with artist’s personal stamp on verso.
$5000 – $8000
Lot 236. PUNI, Ivan Albertovich [Jean Pougny] (1894-1956).
Ya [I]. Gouache of a Suprematist woman painted on a postcard, circa 1920. (140 x 90 mm).
Provenance: Puni archive with artist’s personal stamp on verso.
$5000 – $8000
Lot 237. PUNI, Ivan Albertovich [Jean Pougny] (1894-1956).
[Untitled]. Gouache of a Suprematist man painted on a postcard, circa 1920. (140 x 90 mm).
Provenance: Puni archive with artist’s personal stamp on verso.
$5000 – $8000
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Lot 238. RYBACK, Issacher Ber (1897-1935).
Shtetl. Mayn chorever heym. [Shtetl. My Destroyed Home, A Recollection].
1923. Pencil on paper mounted on board (330 x 450 mm). Original
design for title page of the book. Signed lower right.
Ryback initially experimented with Cubism and then turned to
painting Jewish subjects in the 1920s when critics and collectors
began to appreciate his analytic Cubism and recognize his
importance in the Russian avant-garde movement. He was an
important member of the Russian Jewish modernist movement that
included Lissitzky, Altman, Aronson and Chagall.
$5000 – $8000
Lot 239. RYBACK, Issacher Ber (1897-1935).
Russian Cossack. Charcoal on card (402 x 265 mm). Framed.
Ryback’s untimely death was made all the more tragic which it
ocurred on the eve of an important retrospective in Paris that would
have presented his considerable talents to a larger audience.
$800 – $1200
Lot 240. RYBACK, Issacher Ber (1897-1935).
Drawing of three officers. Pencil and charcoal on artist board (360 x
288 mm). Illustration for an unknown novel. Framed.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 241. RYBACK, Issacher Ber (1897-1935).
Drawing of three drunken Cossacks. Charcoal on card (328 x 415 mm).
Signed lower right and ironically inscribed“Fairy Tale” in Cyrillic
upper left. Illustration for an unknown Russian story. Framed.
The painter Edouard Roditi said, “Ryback may be generally
recognized as an artist whose genius bears comparison only with
that of Chagall.”
$1200 – $1800
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Lot 242. RYBACK, Issacher Ber (1897-1935).
Sketchbook. Pencil on paper. 24 works in spiral bound sketchbook
(340 x 265 mm) and 9 works loose (280 x 215 mm).
A charming series of sketches depicting bucolic scenes of domestic
life and dockside observations.
$5000 – $80000
Lot 243. RYBACK, Issachar Ber (1897-1935).
Fifteen Original Pencil on Paper Designs for Russian Yiddish Theatre
Stage Sets. A modern album containing 15 loosely inserted original
pencil on paper drawings, printed title on upper cover. Folio
(447 x 340 mm), 15 paper and clear acetate sleeves, each containing
a single leaf (420 x 337 mm. and smaller) with original drawings in
pencil and pen, ink and pencil by Ryback, some sheets irregularly
shaped. Modern cloth portfolio, paper title label on upper cover,
ribbon ties. Condition: two drawings with tears into the image
area, some other small tears to margins or holes, occasional light
spotting.
$5000 – $8000
Lot 243
Lot 244. SHILDER, Andrei Nikolaevic (1861-1919).
Forest Brook. 1912. Oil on canvas (540 x 785 mm). Signed in Cyrillic and dated lower right. Framed.
Shilder apprenticed under Ivan Shishkin and graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. He became a member in 1861.
Under the influence of Pavel Fedotov, he painted a series on the realities of Russian village life. He also painted portraits including that of
Tsar Alexander III.
$30000 – $50000
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Lot 245. SOMOV, Konstantin Andreevich (1869-1939).
Portrait of Mrs. Girshman. 1928. Pastel (370 x 255 mm). Signed, inscribed
“Paris” and dated Nov. 1928 lower right. Framed. Exhibited: 14 June - 17
September 1967, The Gallery of Modern Art, New York. Illustrated: A Survey
of Russian Painting : Fifteenth Century to the Present; p. 64.
an exquisite portrait of the famous russian patroness.
Somov was one of the greatest Russian portraitists. His father was a curator
at the Hermitage and he studied under Ilya Repin at the Imperial Academy
of Arts from 1888 to 1897. While there, he became friends with Sergei
Diaghilev, Léon Bakst and Alexandre Benois and was a founding member
of the influential Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] group in St. Petersburg. His
elegant portraits of Aleksandr Blok, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Vyacheslav
Ivanov, Mikhail Kuzmin and others helped define the luxurious Silver Age.
After the Revolution, Somov left for the United States but did not care for
America and went to Paris to live and work in 1925. It was there that his old
friend from St. Petersburg, Mrs. Girshman, posed for her portrait. Genrietta
Leopoldovna Girshman (1895-1970) was a grand patroness of Russian
composers, musicians, authors and artists. She and her businessman husband
Vladimir held an esteemed salon in St. Petersburg. She was also friends with
Benois, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Nabokov and nearly every other important
Russian artistic figure of the first half of the twentieth century, both in prerevolutionary
Russia and in exile. Valentin Serov’s portraits of both Girshmans
are among that artist’s best known paintings. Somov had previously painted
Mrs. Girshman’s portrait in 1915; she and her husband were avid collectors of
his works, owning eighty works. This pastel is arguably one of Somov’s most
penetrating and sympathetic portraits.
$100000 – $150000

Lot 246. SUDEIKIN, Sergei Iurevich [Serge Soudeikine] (1882-1946).
Pierrot Serenading. c. 1922. Pencil, watercolor, gouache on artist board (260 x 195 mm). Framed. Provenance:
estate of Jeanne Palmer Sudeikin, Oct 1975.
The present work is most likely from “The Deceived Parrot,” a musical number staged at the Theatre de la
Chauve-souris (The Bat Theatre), an international musical theater under the direction of Nikita Balieff.
$10000 – $15000
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Lot 247. SUDEIKIN, Sergei Iurevich [Serge Soudeikine] (1882-1946).
Kukly [Dolls]. Oil on canvas (575 x 655 mm). Signed.
A striking example in oil of Sudeikin’s deft and vigorous art and one that is less stylized than much of his theatrical work. Banned from
the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture for “obscene drawings,” Sudeikin fell in with Sergei Diaghilev and Alexandre
Benois’ Mir iskusstva [World of Art] group. Soudeikin quickly became one of the most versatile artists of the Silver Age. He combined an easy
familiarity with set design, poster art and easel work and was a central figure in the evolution of Russian stage design. His depiction of these
elegant commedia del’arte dolls demonstrates his long-held fascination with theatrical subjects. Note the tragedy and comedy masks in the
background.
$40000 – $60000
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Lot 248. TERESKOVICH, Konstantin (1902-1978).
Portrait of a man.1958. Ink on paper (430 x 285 mm). Signed with
monogram and dated lower right. Framed.
[With:] Portrait of a woman. 1950. Pencil and charcoal on paper
(390 x 465 mm). Signed and dated lower right. Framed.
$5000 – $8000
Lot 249. TERESKOVICH, Konstantin (1902-1978).
Young Equestrian. Color lithograph (615 x 465 mm). Signed lower
right and numbered 28 of 50. Framed.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 250. TERESKOVICH, Konstantin (1902-1978).
Venetian Page. [19]53. Color lithograph (645 x 495 mm). Signed
lower right and dated. Numbered 118 of 120. Framed.
$1000 – $1500
Lot 251. VASILIEV, Nikolai Ivanovitch (1892-1970).
Country Road. Oil on canvas (490 x 620 mm). Signed lower right. Framed.
Nicolas Vasiliev was born in Moscow in 1892 and graduated from the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts. He studied at K. Yuon and I. Dubin’s
studio-school in Moscow in early 1900, then attended the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1906-1909. Vasiliev
followed a somewhat peripatetic existence until his early thirties. He was active in Moscow until 1919 including a teaching appointment at
Moscow Free Art Studios. From there he moved to Istanbul in 1919, then to Germany and France in 1922, and finally settling permanently
in the USA in 1923. He died in Massachusetts in 1970. Contemporary artists who admired his work include Fairfield Porter and fellow
émigré David Burliuk, whose portrait he painted.
$20000 – $30000
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The next sale of Rusian Literature and Art will be held on 4 December 2008
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INAUGURAL PHOTOGRAPHS SALE | NEW YORK
Compilation attributed to Baron
von Brandis: The Countries of the Amur,
Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
and the Urals, 1860-1866.
St. Petersburg: Karl Rikker, 1870.
Plate 264 Town-sledge at Omsk.
In five volumes.
Estimate: $800,000-1,200,000
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