Jun 17, 2021 - Sale 2573

Sale 2573 - Lot 240

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
MAYAKOVSKY, VLADIMIR and RODCHENKO, ALEXANDR (illus.). Sergeiu Eseninu. [To Sergei Esenin.] 16 pp. Small 8vo (175 x 130 mm), original decorated wrappers printed in red and black with front and back photomontage covers designed by Rodchenko and two in-text Constructivist photomontages, backstrip lightly rubbed, few soft creases. First edition. Mayakovsky's by turns lyric and angry elegy written in response to fellow poet and provocateur Sergei Esenin's suicide with Rodchenko's arresting visual contributions. Tiflis: Zakkniga, 1926