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Russian Art & Literature - Bloomsbury Auctions

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Lot 30. GOLLERBAKH, Erikh Fedorovich (1895-1922) and Boris Vladimirovich Farmakovskii (1870-1924).<br />

Russkii khudozhestvennyi farfor [<strong>Art</strong>istic <strong>Russian</strong> Porcelain]. Leningrad: GIZ, 1924. 165 pp. Profusely illustrated including color plates.<br />

Two-color decorated wrappers designed by Sergei Chekhonin. Condition: minor rubbing to backstrip and cover edges, light finger soiling<br />

to covers.<br />

The great classic study (in <strong>Russian</strong> and French) of the art of <strong>Russian</strong> porcelain, both pre- and -post-Revolutionary. It includes scholarly<br />

articles not only by Gollerbakh and Farmakovskii, but also one by Chekhonin on the technique of painting on porcelain. Chekhonin<br />

was one of the top designers of in the early Soviet period and headed the state porcelain factory, formerly the imperial porcelain factory.<br />

Other important artists discussed in this monograph are Valentin Serov, Konstantin Somov, Nikolai Suetin, Boris Kuznetsov and Elana and<br />

Natalia Danko.<br />

$4,000 - $6,000<br />

Lot 30<br />

Books & Periodicals 19

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