ROUSSKAU GRAFIKA ZA GODY REVOLIUTSII. LE DESSIN RUSSE PENDANT LES ANNEES REVOLUTIONANAIRES

MOSKOW, La Maison de la Presse (The Printing House)., 1923. 1917-1922. Dom Petchati. Russian Graphic Artists during the Years of the Revolution 1917-1922. Moscou. 1923. 4to, 24.5 x 18cm. 113pp. One of an edition of 3000. Stapled. Lithograph covers printed in black by A. Kravchenko. The finest bibliography of Russian graphic art during the revolutionary years. A study in Russian by the art historian, Alexei Sidorov. (1981-1978). Director of the Museum of Fine Arts of Moscow, an academician. There are over 50 Illustrations (drawings, woodcuts, lithographs of the work of Chagall, Kandinsky, Konachevitch, Lebedev, Mayakovsky and Rozanova and many others (See below). The most detailed documentation of the period. The book is scuffed and soiled but in relatively good condition. The staples are old and there is some tearing near the staples on the first page. In old Cyrillic writing, (called slavon), This illustrated edition has been published in Paris, in Russian language first, a quite different French edition has been published also with only the first title and less illustrations. Text first published in Russia. In good condition. Sidorov, Aleksey [Aleksei, Alexey, Alexei] Alekseevich [Alexeevich] (1891-1978) Well-known Russian and Soviet Avant-garde graphic artist, art critic, bibliophile, art historian and occultist. Artists: B.P. Erdman Piskarev M.V. Dobuzhinskii p.34 B>M> Kustodiev p.35 p.41 an image of Jack London's book HOW I BECAME A SOCIALIST, published in Moscow 1922. p.42. L.E. Feinberg p.44 Benois p.47 Illustration for the poem Twelve by Block p.46 IU.P. Annenkov p.51 Lebedev p.56 and p. 57 Portrait of A. Block p.62 O. Rosanova p.63 Kandinsky p.68-69 N.N. Kupreianov p. 70 B.A. Favorskii and A>P> Ostroumova-Lebedeva p. 74