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GONTCHAROVA. ROUBAKINE (Nicolas) [La cité. En russe: Gorod].
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GONTCHAROVA. ROUBAKINE (Nicolas) [The City. In Russian: Gorod].
Paris, [the author], 1920. In-8, [3] f. (first blank), 54 single-sided printed pages, [9] plates, figs, russet-brown calf, smooth spine with mosaic Russian title, boards decorated with a composition of mosaic or embossed pieces of various leathers, as well as small pieces of snakeskin, box lining of same hue, black suede endpapers, untrimmed, uncut, mounts on tabs, covers preserved, half calf folder and matching slipcases [Mathieu, Méli, Jolis] (small rub to edge of slipcase).
First edition reproducing the manuscript of the author's poems in Russian, illustrated with 52 compositions by Natalia Goncharova, including 9 hors-texte.
Limited edition of 325 copies: one of the 25 head copies on old China paper (no. 4).
This work is highly characteristic of the Parisian years of Goncharova, one of the pioneers of abstraction and, with Larionov, the instigator of the "rayonnist" movement.
Original binding designed by Monique Mathieu and executed in 1991 by M. Mélin and H. Jolis.
(Rowell-Wye. The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934. New York: MoMA, 2002, no. 292)
Paris, [the author], 1920. In-8, [3] f. (first blank), 54 single-sided printed pages, [9] plates, figs, russet-brown calf, smooth spine with mosaic Russian title, boards decorated with a composition of mosaic or embossed pieces of various leathers, as well as small pieces of snakeskin, box lining of same hue, black suede endpapers, untrimmed, uncut, mounts on tabs, covers preserved, half calf folder and matching slipcases [Mathieu, Méli, Jolis] (small rub to edge of slipcase).
First edition reproducing the manuscript of the author's poems in Russian, illustrated with 52 compositions by Natalia Goncharova, including 9 hors-texte.
Limited edition of 325 copies: one of the 25 head copies on old China paper (no. 4).
This work is highly characteristic of the Parisian years of Goncharova, one of the pioneers of abstraction and, with Larionov, the instigator of the "rayonnist" movement.
Original binding designed by Monique Mathieu and executed in 1991 by M. Mélin and H. Jolis.
(Rowell-Wye. The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934. New York: MoMA, 2002, no. 292)