May 09, 2013 - Sale 2313

Sale 2313 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM. JOURNAL.) Lissitsky, El. Architecture of the USSR. 11 issues (one double issue) profusely illustrated. Comprising 1933: numbers 1, 3/4, 5, and 6; 1934: numbers 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12; 1935: number 1. 7 issues with Lissitzky designed layout. 4to, printed wrappers, rubbed with scattered soiling and dampstaining, pencil notations to wrapper margins; contents generally clean. (IO). Moscow, 1933-35
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A nice run of this influential Soviet architectural periodical. The bulk of the issues herein were designed by Lissitzky, and showcase some of his seemingly tireless efforts towards promoting still-nascent Contructivist aesthetics. Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, page 143.