Nov 24, 2015 - Sale 2400

Sale 2400 - Lot 256

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(THEATER. RUSSIA.) Annenkoff, Georges. Portrety [Portraits] Text by Evgenii Ivanovich Zamyatin, Mikhail Nikolaevich Kuzmin and Mikhail Vasilevich Babenchikov. 80 illustrations including 37 full-page plates (10 in color) with lettered tissue guards. Biographical and modernist pictorial profile of Russian writers and artists including Blok, Zamyatin, Benois, Akhmatova, Gorky, Kuzmin, Altman, Chukovsky, Pasternak, Remizov, and others. 4to, original lettered mulberry wrappers, edgeworn and some binding glue showing through, spine ends rubbed with loss; original color pictorial dust wrapper, edgeworn and moderately soiled. St. Petersburg: "Petropolis," 1922

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one of 900 copies of this important collection of modernist russian figures in the arts that includes an essay on Annenkov by Zamiatin, work executed by the artists between 1906 and 1921, theatrical designs and sketches, and a list of private and institutional owners of the individual works. This copy out-of-series. Gray, "The Great Experiment" 249