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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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