RUSSIAN - Bloomsbury Auctions
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Lot 154. RYABUSHINSKII, Nikolai and Georgii Ivanovich CHULKOV (editors).<br />
Zolotoe runo. La Toison d’or [The Golden Fleece]. Moscow: [A. I. Mamontov; I. I. Kushnerev & Co.], January 1906 - November/December<br />
1909. 34 issues (all published, including a number of double or triple number issues) bound in 8 volumes, 4to (293 x 216 mm). Large<br />
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,<br />
some colored. Contemporary gray cloth, top edges stained red (4 volumes), dark green half morocco (2 volumes) or dark red half morocco<br />
(2 volumes). Condition: cloth spines somewhat faded and lightly soiled, the red-staining to edges occasionally over-enthusiastic; the dark<br />
green morocco spines darkened to brown.<br />
a complete run of this opulent art, literary and critical journal of the silver age. With contributions by Konstantin<br />
Balmont, Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Valerii Briusov, Kornei Chukovsky, Maurice Denis, Zaida Gippius, Vladisov Khodasevich, Mikhail<br />
Kuzmin, Vsevolod Meierkhold, Aleksei Remizov, Nicholas Roerich, Fedor Sologub and others. Illustrations by Léon Bakst, Alexandre<br />
Benois, Ivan Bilibin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Nicolai Feofilaktov, Evgenii Lansere, Vasili Masiutin, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Somov, Sergei<br />
Sudeikin, Mikhail Vrubel, Boris Zvorikin and others. Beginning in April 1908 in Moscow, Zolotoe runo, like Mir isskustva before, sponsored<br />
art exhibitions and introduced not only the new Russian artists but also Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse and other Western masters<br />
to the Russian public. June-September 1906 has a survey of Russian icons with decorations by Bilibin; the topic of the January 1907 issue<br />
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<br />
of Mir Isskustva [The World Art], Zolotoe runo is arguably one of the most beautiful periodicals ever published. An exceedingly rare complete<br />
run. (8)<br />
$50000 – $70000<br />
9 Russian Literature & Art Russian Literature & Art 99
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