Jun 06, 2002 - Sale 1938

Sale 1938 - Lot 155

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE.) Pervaia Konnaia [First Cavalry]. Designed by Varvara Stepanova and Aleksandr Rodchenko. Generously illustrated with full-page reproductions of photomontages, front pages of "Pravda," monochromatic reproductions of photographs, as well as posters, cartoons, facsimiles of archival documents by Stalin, Soviet Realist paintings, and maps, in addition to portraits of Soviet leaders, including an original photograph of Lenin. Folio, green stamped leatherette, soiled, abraded; one signature detached, scattered soiling throughout. Moscow, (1938)

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A massive 300-page photo documentary for which Rodchenko and Stepanova were commissioned to trace the heroic feats of the First Cavalry during the Russian Civil War, 1918-21. Photographers represented include<