Apr 26, 2018 - Sale 2475

Sale 2475 - Lot 90

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(GRAPHIC DESIGN / EL LISSITZKY / FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT / ARCHITECTURE.) Wendingen. Volume IV, Number 11. Edited and with interior typography by H. Theodorus Wijdeveld. 16 photographic plates and 4 illustrations of Wright designs. Square 4to, original wrappers with raffia sewn spine featuring Lissitzky's iconic Suprematist design in black, grey, and red, and bearing lissitzky's stamp in the lower right corner of front cover, light foxing, toning, and edgewear, but otherwise in unusually good condition. Amsterdam: Wijdeveld, 1921

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first edition. This issue of the Dutch architectural journal Wendingen was dedicated entirely to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The text by H.P. Berlage is accompanied by numerous illustrations of the celebrated architect's work and features one of El Lissitzky's most famous Suprematist designs. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 146; Sweeney 143.