Jun 06, 2002 - Sale 1938

Sale 1938 - Lot 149

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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 2,500
(RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE.) NOVYI LEF [NEW LEFT FRONT OF THE ARTS]. Edited by Vladmir Mayakovsky. Group of 8 issues from the year 1928. With Constructivist design and typography by Rodchenko, and reproductions of Rodchenko's photographs along with those by kaufman, tretyakov, teleschov, umbo, vertov<>, and others. Slim 8vo, photo-pictorial wrappers; condition generally good/very good. Moscow, 1928
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No. 3 ( March) No. 4 ( April) No. 5 (May ) No. 6 ( June) No. 7 (July ) No. 8 (August) No. 10 (October) No. 11.

With literary contributions by Mayakovsky, Tretyakov, Shklovskii, and Brik. Issue # 6 contains Rodchenko's manifesto on the new art for a revolutionary society, pp. 42-44. Issues of "Novyi Lef" are featured in the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and reproduced in the exhibition catalogue, p. 236.<