Some great imagery in a rare volume of 85 plates - mostly military but only, with many themes strikingly depicted. A rare item of Russian folk art, here in fine condition.
Avant-garde and propaganda's early days: the English version of this celebration of one of most striking Russian artists and designers.
VIGNOLA [pseud. for BAROZZI, Giacomo] and Carlo ANTONINI (engraver)
ll Vignola illustrato
Prince Gagarin's copy, in a beautful Italian binding: he was Russia's ambassador in Rome at the time and a noted patron of the arts; the edition was dedicated to him. A beautiful illustrated work of architecture.
A strking poster calling to save the historical monuments and works of art in the midst of a bloody and damaging civil war.
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SOKOLOV, [Ilia], [Aleksandr] ZUGRIN, [Fedor] SMIRNOV, and other artists
Grafika studiitsev masterskoi moskovskogo Proletkulta [Graphic Art by Students of the Moscow Proletkult Workshop]
10 artists and 20 linocuts for this only issue of the works of an important early Soviet artistic organisation. Very rare, with only 2 other copies traced, none in institutions.
A pair of lovely and scarce early Soviet postcards encouraging neglecting parents to take care of their child's health. Great message with great imagery, away from the contemporary avant-garde and constructivism.
Fine copy of this uncommon propaganda poster from the Soviet Union's early days and showing a stack of books which could well be antiquarian ones!
A great poster we like especially, for its design and its message of course, in particular in a country where libraries have suffered so much, with books destroyed, stolen, badly stamped or stored... Published in the midst of the civil war. One of our favorites!
GONTCHAROVA [Natalia GONCHAROVA] and LARIONOW [Mikhail LARIONOV] (artists), and Valentin PARNAKH
L'Art décoratif théâtral moderne
Fine complete copy of the first, limited edition. With beautiful plates by the two Russian avant-garde artists working for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris, some of these illustrations large and strikingly colourful.
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A great, very unusual printed artefact: an early example of Russian lithography in form of a long roll, giving extensive illustrated details on the future funeral of the tsar. Very rare.
Beautiful broadside for the coronation of Russia's last tsar, very decorative and in very good condition.