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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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