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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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