Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
(GONTCHAROVA, NATALIA.) Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergyeevich. Conte de Tsar et de son fils le Glorieux . . . de Cynge. Translated by Claude Arnet. Illustrated in vibrant pochoir by Gontcharova. 48 pages. 4to, contents loose as issued in original pictorial board folder, lacks cloth ties; entirely unopened; custom felt-lined cloth clamshell box with gilt morocco spine label with an extra label laid inside. Paris: La Sirène, 1921

Additional Details

first edition. number 294 of 529 copies on vélin de rives. Colored at the studio of Marty under the direction of Daniel Jacomet. Gontcharova was the great-niece of Pushkin''s wife. An unusually bright copy of both the contents and board folder. Hellyer 433.