Russian Art & Literature - Bloomsbury Auctions

Lot 73. OSTRUMOVA-LEBEDEVA, Anna Petrovna (1871-1955).
Peterburg. Petersburg: Komitet Populyarizatsii Khudozhestvennykh Izdanii, 1922. Oblong folio (310 x 410 mm). Bound suite of 14
autolithographs including pictorial title and contents pages, all but the title page signed in pencil. Introduction by Alexandre Benois. Lettered
blue wrappers. Condition: book block detached, backstrip perished with tape repair
One of 400 copies. A. P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva studied in Russia with Ilya Repin and worked in the studio of James McNeill Whistler
in Paris. It was while learning watercolor technique with Leon Bakst that she became a member of the Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] group.
She never worked in oil due to an allergy, but she became a gifted printmaker and is best remembered for her panoramic studies of St.
Petersburg as in this famous suite of autolithographs. Although it had recently gone through a World War, Revolution and Civil War,
Ostroumova-Lebedeva drew a still magnificent city in these impressive prints.
$8,000 - $12,000
Lot 74. PASTERNAK, Boris Leondovich (1890-1960).
Gruzinskie liriki [Georgian Lyrics]. Moscow: Sovestskii pisatel, 1919. Illustrated by Lado Gudiashvili. 8vo (220 x 157 mm). 140 pp. Title in
red and black. Gilt decorated blue cloth, patterned endpapers. Condition: front hinge cracked, spine faded, waterstain to lower cover.
First edition of translations of Georgian poetry by the great Russian Nobel Prize-winning writer with Nikolai Tikhonov. Stalin, himself a
Georgian, admired this work and that may have protected the poet during the Great Purge. The illustrator was also Georgian.
$500 - $800
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