Russian Art & Literature - Bloomsbury Auctions

Lot 6. BEAUMONT, Cyril W.
The Art of Lydia Lopokova. London: C.W.Beaumont,1920. 4to.
Frontispiece portrait by Glyn Philpot, another portrait by Picasso,
9 hand-colored mounted plates and 3 decorations by Arabella
Yorke. Original pictorial wrappers. Condition: light soiling,
edgewear to covers.
$500 - $800
Lot 7. BEAUMONT, Cyril W.
The Art of Lubov Tchernicheva. London: C.W. Beaumont, 1921. 4to.
Portrait by Glyn Philpot, 8 hand-coloured plates and decorations
by Vera Petrovna. Original decorated wrappers. Condition: faint
discoloration and edgewear to wrappers.
Scarce. ABPC records only one copy to appear at auction in the
last thirty years.
$600 - $800
Lot 8. BEKSHTEIN, Leonid.
Graficheskie kompozitsii [Graphic Compositions]. Leningrad:
Krasnoi Gazety, 1929. One of 2,000 copies. 101 pp. Oblong 4to
(175 x 267 mm). Decorated white wrappers. Condition: soiled
and waterstained wrappers also affecting first ten leaves, backstrip
extremities chipped with some loss.
Rare bound suite of Cubist outline figure drawings of laborers,
athletes, musicians, dancers and nudes. Bekshtein added some
Marxist propaganda to these energetic studies of Soviet men and
women in action when he placed the knife-wielding Fascist on the
same page as the sanctimonius Priest.
$400 - $500
Lot 9. BELENSON, Aleksandr.
Zabavnye stishki [Humorous Rhymes]. St. Petersburg: [“Satirikon”],
1914. 170 x 128 mm. Illustrated by Nikolai Ivanovich Kulbin. 43
pp. Condition: signatures separated.
$1,200 - $1,500
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