Russian Art & Literature - Bloomsbury Auctions
Russian Art & Literature - Bloomsbury Auctions
Russian Art & Literature - Bloomsbury Auctions
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
Lot 39. KHIGER, Efim Yakolevich (1899-1956).<br />
Narody SSSR [The People of the USSR]. Leningrad and Moscow: Raduga, [1926]. 215 x 185 mm. 12 pp. Color lithographs. Decorated<br />
wrappers.<br />
E. Ya. Khiger was a gay Jewish Constructivist who illustrated a number of children’s books and also designed for the movies.<br />
[With:] OLEKSENKO, E. Zelenyi popugai [The Green Parrot]. Moscow and Leningrad: Raduga, 1926. Illustrated by E. Ya. Khiger. 280 x 215<br />
mm. 12 pp. Color lithographs. Decorated Wrappers.<br />
PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ARTIST TO YAKOV RUBENCHIK, inscribed in pencil on the half-title page. Ya. Rubenchik is rumored to have<br />
been Khiger’s lover.<br />
[And:] KHIGER, Efim Yakovlevich. Azbuka [Alphabet]. Moscow and Leningrad: Raduga, 1926. 280 x 220 mm. 12 pp. Color lithographs.<br />
Decorated wrappers.<br />
PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ARTIST TO YAKOV RUBENCHIK, inscribed in purple pencil on the verso of the front wrapper.<br />
[And:] GAVRIKOV, V. Kto Skoree [Which is Faster]. Illustrated by Isidor Aronovich Frantsuz. Moscow and Leningrad: GIZ, 1926. 230 x<br />
170 mm. 16 pp. Color lithographas. Decorated wrappers.<br />
PRESENTATION COPY FROM I. FRANTSUZ TO YAKOV RUBENCHIK, inscribed in ink to “One of my best friends Yakov Rubenchik, November<br />
20, 1926.” I. A. Frantsuz (1896-1991) was an important Jewish Constructivist architect who helped design Lenin’s Mausoleum, the<br />
Narkomzem Ministry of Agriculture Building and the Monument to the Soviet Hero. His architectural knowledge is evident in this<br />
children’s treatise on transportation. (4)<br />
$5,000 - $6,000<br />
24 Books & Periodicals<br />
Lot 39
Change language