?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
LARIONOV'S COPY OF MAYAKOVSKY (RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE.) Mayakovsky, Vladimir; and Lazar Markovich (El Lissitzky). Dlia Golosa [For the Voice]. Printed in red and black. Designed by El Lissitzky, including the title-page photomontage and his pictograms, which mix typography and abstract motifs. 8vo, original orange wrappers designed by Lissitzky, a few soil marks, light creasing and rubbing. ex-collection mikhail larionov with his stamp on the front cover and copyright page. (IO). Moscow and Berlin: Lutze & Vogt for the State Publishing House, 1923
a landmark work for the russian avant-garde movement. The title derives from Mayakovsky's 13 poems which were meant to be read aloud. It represents an important period in the development of Constructivist design by Lissitzky. Its typography, a collaboration of design and color by the artist and author to give new dimensions to the printed word on a page, was a major influence on western European art, particularly to the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements. "Lissitsky's invention of a thumb-tab index for ease in finding each poem epitomizes the notion of the book as functional object"--MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, pages 54 & 478; From Manet to Hockney 68; Artists' Books in the Modern Era 41; Tarasenkov 245; Lissitsky-Kuppers 25, 381-5; Ex Libris, #6, 194.
