Bidspirit auctions | Kedem Auction Nov 5, 2024
Kedem, Nov 5, 2024. 151 lots.
Kedem - Reference:
MoMA = Margit Rowell and Deborah Wye, The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934. New York: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002.
Lots in this catalog (151)
- Lot 1: Three Futurist Poetry Books – 1918-1919
- Lot 2: Collection of Booklets – Russian Poetry and Literature – Moscow-Leningrad,
- Lot 3: Collection of Booklets – Revolutionary Literature in Soviet Russia – Moscow-Leningrad,
- Lot 4: Ten Poetry and Prose Books in Russian – Avant-garde Designed Covers and Bindings
- Lot 5: Two Books with Covers Designed by Kirill Zdanevich – "The Soviet Country" by Sergei Yesenin – Tbilisi,
- Lot 6: Collection of Early Soviet Poetry Books – Modernist Illustrated Covers – Moscow-Leningrad,
- Lot 7: Two Books by Ilya Ehrenburg – Moscow, 1926-1927
- Lot 8: Collection of Poetry, Prose and Non-Fiction Books – Moscow-Leningrad, 1927-1932 – Covers Designed by Various Artists
- Lot 9: Collection of Books with Covers and Woodcuts by Vladimir Favorsky – Moscow, 1923-1934 – Signed Prints
- Lot 10: Collection of Books with Illustrations by Mendel Gorshman
- Lot 11: "The Devil and the Speechmakers", Futurist Texts by Aleksei Kruchenykh - St. Petersburg,
- Lot 12: "Tambourine", Collection of Futurist Poetry by Bozhidar - Moscow,
- Lot 13: "Roaring Parnassus", Anthology of Futurist Poetry – St. Petersburg, 1914 – Illustrations by David Burliuk,
- Lot 14: "Four Birds" – Collection of Futurist Poetry – Moscow, 1916 – Cover Designed by Aristarkh Lentulov
- Lot 15: "Lyre of Lyres", Poems by Sergei Bobrov – Moscow, 1917 – Avant-Garde Cover Design
- Lot 16: "Barefoot Girls", Book of Poems by Vasily Kamensky – Tbilisi, 1917
- Lot 17: "The Portrait", Novella by Nikolai Gogol – Stuttgart, 1920 – Illustrations by Vasily Masyutin
- Lot 18: "Zangezi", a Futurist Poem by Velimir Khlebnikov – Moscow, 1922 – Cover Design by Pyotr Miturich
- Lot 19: "Lyrika" – Collection of Neo-Classical Poetry– Moscow, 1922 – Cover Design by Georgy Echeistov
- Lot 20: "Princess Turandot", a Tragedy by Carlo Gozzi – Moscow-St. Petersburg, 1923 – Cover and Lithographs by Ignaty Nivinsky
- Lot 21: "A Multitude", Poems by Ryurik Rok – Moscow, 1923 – Cover Design by Boris Zemenkov
- Lot 22: "Mayakovsky Gallery", by Vladimir Mayakovsky – Moscow, 1923 – Illustrations by Mayakovsky
- Lot 23: "A Menacing Laughter", by Vladimir Mayakovsky – Moscow-Leningrad, 1932 – Design by Varvara Stepanova – Two Copies
- Lot 24: Vladimir Mayakovsky – Collection of Books – Moscow-Leningrad, 1925-1932 – Designed by Grigory Bershadsky,
- Lot 25: "Wandering Stars", Film Script by Isaac Babel – Moscow, 1926 – Cover and Illustrations by Alexander Bykhovsky
- Lot 26: "The Literary Work of David D. Burliuk", by Igor Postupalski - New York, 1931 - Hand-Illustrated Cover by Burliuk
- Lot 27: "Across the Pole to America", by Georgy Baydukov – Moscow, 1938 – Cover and Illustrations by Alexander Deyneka
- Lot 28: "The Three", Collection of Futurist Poetry and Prose – St. Petersburg, 1913 – Cover Design by Kazimir Malevich
- Lot 29: "A Game in Hell", by Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksi Kruchenykh – Lithographic Print, St. Petersburg,
- Lot 30: Nikolay Punin – "First Cycle of Lectures, Read at Short-term Courses for Teachers of Drawing" – Petrograd,
- Lot 31: "By the Rivers of Babylon", Poetry Collection Edited by Leib Jaffe – Moscow, 1917 – Cover Designed by El Lissitzky
- Lot 32: "Noa Noa: Voyage to Tahiti", by Paul Gauguin / "Life and Work of Paul Gauguin", by Yakov Tugendhold – Moscow,
- Lot 33: "Six Tales with Easy Endings", by Ilya Ehrenburg – Moscow-Berlin, 1922 – Cover and Illustrations by El Lissitzky
- Lot 34: Collection of Booklets – Covers Designed by El Lissitzky: "Epopeia", All Four Issues – Moscow-Berlin,
- Lot 35: "Zoo, or Letters Not About Love", by Viktor Shklovsky – Two Editions – Berlin and Leningrad,
- Lot 36: "Architecture of VKhUTEMAS" – Moscow, 1927 – Cover Design by El Lissitzky
- Lot 37: "The Theater Unbound" by Alexander Tairov – Potsdam, 1927 – Designed by El Lissitzky
- Lot 38: "Notes of a Poet", by Ilya Selvinsky – Moscow-Leningrad, 1928 – Photomontage Cover Designed by El Lissitzky
- Lot 39: "My Paris", Album by Ilya Ehrenburg – Moscow, 1933 – Designed by El Lissitzky
- Lot 40: "Spain", Photo Album of the Spanish Civil War by Ilya Ehrenburg – Both Volumes, Leningrad,
- Lot 41: "Stone", Poems by Osip Mandelstam – Moscow-Petrograd, 1923 – Cover Designed by Alexander Rodchenko
- Lot 42: "Flight: Aviation Verse", Anthology of Poems Edited by Nikolai Aseyev – Moscow,
- Lot 43: "LEF", Journal of the "Left Front of the Arts" – Two Issues – Moscow, 1923 / "New LEF" – Moscow,
- Lot 44: "Catalogue of the Posthumous Exhibition of the Artist-Constructor L. S. Popova" – Moscow,
- Lot 45: "Mess Mend or Yankees in Petrograd" – Moscow-Leningrad, 1924 – Eight Booklets Designed by Alexander Rodchenko
- Lot 46: Book of Poetry by Sergei Tretyakov – Moscow, 1924 – Cover Design by Alexander Rodchenko
- Lot 47: "Decorative and Industrial Art of the USSR", Catalogue – Moscow, 1925 – Cover design by Alexander Rodchenko
- Lot 48: "About Lenin", by Joseph Stalin – Two Editions – Moscow, 1934 / 1935 – Binding Designed by Alexander Rodchenko
- Lot 49: Collection of Books with Covers Designed by Alexander Rodchenko – Soviet Union, 1920s – Vladimir Mayakovsky,
- Lot 50: Two Technology Periodicals – Moscow, 1930-1931 – Four Issues with Covers Designed by Alexander Rodchenko
- Lot 51: Book of Poems by Nikolai Aseev – Moscow, 1930 – Cover Designed by Alexander Rodchenko – With Author's Dedication
- Lot 52: Two Avant-Garde Books by Aleksei Kruchenykh – Covers Designed by Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina – "Zaum
- Lot 53: "Four Phonetic Novels" by Aleksei Kruchenykh – Moscow,
- Lot 54: "15 Years of Russian Futurism" – Moscow, 1928 – Cover Design by Gustav Klutsis – Illustrations by Various Artists
- Lot 55: The Potemkin Mutiny – St. Petersburg, 1927 – Cover Designed by the Stenberg Brothers
- Lot 56: "30 Days" Illustrated Periodical – Bound Volume of Issues – Moscow, 1931 – Covers designed by the Stenberg brothers
- Lot 57: "Exhibition of Paintings by Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova 1900-1913)", Catalogue – Moscow,
- Lot 58: "Centrifuge 2", Collection of Modernist Poems – Moscow, 1916 – Cover Designed by Natalia Goncharova
- Lot 59: "Picasso and His Surroundings", by Ivan Aksenov – Moscow, 1917 – Cover Designed by Aleksandra Ekster
- Lot 60: "Notes of a Director", by Alexander Tairov – Moscow, 1921 – Cover and Illustrations by Alexandra Ekster
- Lot 61: "The Bogeyman of Russian Literature", Anthology of Futurist Poetry – Moscow, 1923 – Cover by Natalja Nagorskaja,
- Lot 62: "The Ironyad", by Aleksei Kruchenykh – Moscow, 1930 – Cover Design by Ivan Kliun – Illustration by Igor Terentiev
- Lot 63: "Unpublished Khlebnikov – XIX", Edited by Alexei Kruchenykh – Moscow, 1930 – Cover Designed by Ivan Kliun
- Lot 64: "Kiss of the Sun", Poems by Arnold Volkovsky – St. Petersburg,
- Lot 65: "Tomorrow" No. 1, Literary Anthology – Berlin, 1923 – Cover Designed by Nathan Altman
- Lot 66: Collection of Books in Russian with Covers Designed by Nathan Altman – Moscow-Leningrad, 1926-1931
- Lot 67: Collection of Books by Mikhail Kuzmin and Ilya Ehrenburg – Covers Designed by Nathan Altman – Berlin-Peterburg,
- Lot 68: "Petersburg Tales", by Nikolai Gogol – Moscow, 1937 – Illustrations by Nathan Altman
- Lot 69: Two Children's Books Illustrated by Nathan Altman – "For Children" by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Moscow-Leningrad,
- Lot 70: "Lenin" – Drawings by Nathan Altman – St. Petersburg, 1921
- Lot 71: "Jewish Graphics" – Ten Lithographs by Nathan Altman – Berlin, 1923 – Numbered Copy (with Additional Unnumbered Copy)
- Lot 72: Nathan Altman – Album of Reproductions in a Limited Edition – Berlin, 1924
- Lot 73: Two Monographs on Nathan Altman – Moscow / Paris, Ca. 1920s-1930 – Reproductions of Altman's Works
- Lot 74: "Fine Arts", Soviet Art Magazine – St. Petersburg, 1919 – Cover Designed by David Sternberg
- Lot 75: "40 North – 50 West", by Rudyard Kipling – Translation by Samuil Marshak – Moscow-Leningrad,
- Lot 76: "Filonov", Exhibition Catalogue (for an Exhibition That Did Not Take Place) – Leningrad, 1930
- Lot 77: "Kalevala", Artistic Russian Edition of Finland's National Epic – Moscow-Leningrad,
- Lot 78: "Russian Placards: 1917-1922" – St. Petersburg. 1923 – Lithographs by Vladimir Lebedev
- Lot 79: Collection of Children's Books by Samuil Marshak – Illustrations by Vladimir Lebedev
- Lot 80: Three Children's Books and Booklets – Moscow and Leningrad – 1929-1937 – Illustrations by Vladimir Lebedev
- Lot 81: "The Baptized Chinese" / "Moscow Under Attack" – Two Books by Andrei Bely,
- Lot 82: "Komsomoliya", by Aleksandr Bezymensky – Moscow-Leningrad, 1928 – Constructivist Binding Designed by Solomon Telingater
- Lot 83: "J.V. Stalin – On Technology" – Moscow, 1932 – Cover Design by Solomon Telingater
- Lot 84: "The Art of Everyday Objects", by David Arkin – Moscow, 1932 – Cover Designed by Solomon Telingater
- Lot 85: Two Books on Felix Dzerzhinsky – Moscow, 1936/1933 - Books designed by Solomon Telingater
- Lot 86: "On Babel...",
- Lot 87: "The Voyage of the Chelyuskin" – Moscow, 1934 – Luxurious Edition in Handsome Bakelite Binding, in Three Vols.
- Lot 88: Léon Bakst – Ballet Program – St. Petersburg, 1904
- Lot 89: "Dance of Death" by Frank Wedekind -- St. Petersburg, 1907 -- Cover Designed by Leon Bakst
- Lot 90: "Apollon", Issue 10 – St. Petersburg, 1910 – Illustrations by Leon Bakst
- Lot 91: A Decade of the October Revolution – Two Booklets with Covers Designed by Sergey Chekhonin – Leningrad, 1927
- Lot 92: Two Booklets with Covers Designed by Sergey Chekhonin – Moscow and Leningrad, 1924/1927
- Lot 93: "The Twelve", a Poem by Alexander Blok – St. Petersburg, 1918 – Illustrations by Yuri Annenkov
- Lot 94: "Art Russe Moderne", Album – Paris, 1928 – Cover Designed by Yuri Annenkov
- Lot 95: "Moidodyr", by Korney Chukovsky – Moscow-Leningrad, 1929 – Cover and Illustrations by Yury Annenkov
- Lot 96: "Ulyalayevshchina: epic", by Ilya Selvinsky – Moscow, 1933 – Illustrations by Alexander Tyshler
- Lot 97: "Thoughts on Opanas", Poem by Eduard Bagritsky – Moscow, 1937 – Cover and Illustrations by Alexander Tyshler
- Lot 98: "W. W. Kandinsky" – Moscow, 1918 –Cover Illustrated by Wassily Kandinsky
- Lot 99: Wassily Kandinsky Catalogue of Exhibition in the Galerie de France – Paris, 1930
- Lot 100: Collection of Cover Proofs and Trial Prints – Designed by Alexander Rodchenko,
- Lot 101: Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945) – Portrait of Opera Singer Feodor Chaliapin in Concert Rehearsal
- Lot 102: Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945) – Portrait of Philosopher Hermann Cohen – Signed Lithograph,
- Lot 103: Rachel Kogan (1912-1998) – Portrait of Actor Solomon Mikhoels as "King Lear"
- Lot 104: Nathan Altman (1889-1970) – Four Original Illustrations for Krylov's Fables – 1947
- Lot 105: Nathan Altman (1889-1970) – Large Collection of Original Illustrations and Sketches for an Edition of Sholem
- Lot 106: Mendel Gorshman (1902-1972) – Collection of Illustrations and Sketches for Works by Sholem Aleichem and I.L. Peretz
- Lot 107: Three Yiddish Booklets with Covers and Illustrations by Joseph Chaikov – Kiev and Moscow, 1918-1922
- Lot 108: "Der Galaganer Hon", by Peretz Markish – Berlin, 1922 – Illustrations by Joseph Tchaikov
- Lot 109: Collection of Poetry and Prose Books with Illustrations and Covers Designed by Joseph Chaikov and Abraham Mintchine –
- Lot 110: "Safrut Collections", Journal Edited by Leib Jaffe – Moscow, 1918 – Issue No.
- Lot 111: Collection of Yiddish Poetry Books – Kiev and Minsk, 1921-1922 – David Hofstein, Aaron Kushnirov,
- Lot 112: Exhibition Catalogue of Issachar Ber Ryback – Berlin, 1923/1924 – With Reproductions of His Works
- Lot 113: "Shtetl, My Destroyed Home" – Album of Lithographs by Issachar Ber Ryback – Berlin, 1923
- Lot 114: "In Tovl fun Vent", by David Hofstein – Berlin, 1923 – Cover Designed by Nathan Altman
- Lot 115: "Red Army Soldier to Fight Antisemitism!" – Moscow, 1930
- Lot 116: Collection of Soviet Yiddish Periodicals – Published by "Der Emes", Moscow, 1928-1931 – Illustrations and Photographs
- Lot 117: Collection of Yiddish Poetry, Prose and Non-Fiction Books – USSR,
- Lot 118: Three Books with Illustrations, Engravings and Bindings Designed by Sarah Shor
- Lot 119: "The Travels of Benjamin III", by Mendele Mocher Sforim, Ukrainian Translation – Kharkiv,
- Lot 120: Two Books Designed by Hersh Inger – Moscow, 1929 / 1945
- Lot 121: Collection of Yiddish Poetry and Prose Books – Covers and Illustrations by Meir Axelrod
- Lot 122: "The Art of Marc Chagall" – The First Monograph on Marc Chagall – Moscow, 1918 – Two Copies
- Lot 123: "Monument to the Third International", by Nikolai Punin – St. Petersburg, 1920 – Drawings by Vladimir Tatlin
- Lot 124: "Art in Production" – On the Constructivist Movement in Art – Moscow, 1921 – Two Copies (Variants)
- Lot 125: "And Yet It Moves" – Composition on Avant-Garde Art by Ilya Ehrenburg – Moscow-Berlin,
- Lot 126: Edgar Degas,
- Lot 127: Alexander Archipenko – Album of Reproductions – Berlin, 1923
- Lot 128: "Turkestan" – Series of Autolithographic Drawings by Pavel Kuznetsov – Moscow-Petrograd, 1923
- Lot 129: "The Russian Revolutionary Poster" – Moscow, 1925 – Color Plates
- Lot 130: 20th Anniversary of the 1905 Revolution – "Machine Gun, 1905-1925" – Moscow, 1925 / "Album of Revolutionary Satire,
- Lot 131: Collection of Books with Futurist and Constructivist Style Bindings and Covers – Moscow-Leningrad,
- Lot 132: Two Books with Woodcuts by Zinovii Gorbovets – Vitebsk, 1927 / Moscow, 1933
- Lot 133: Five Books with Woodcuts by Solomon Yudovin – Moscow and Leningrad, 1928-1935 – Handwritten Dedication by Yudovin
- Lot 134: Collection of Publications – Art, Photography and Literature in Soviet Russia,
- Lot 135: Collection of Illustrated Periodicals – Russia, Early 20th Century – Issues Designed by Various Artists,
- Lot 136: Collection of Illustrated Soviet Periodicals – Issues Designed by Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova,
- Lot 137: "USSR in Construction" – Twelve Issues Designed by El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Solomon Telingater,
- Lot 138: Two Soviet Architectural Journals – "Contemporary Architecture: A Decade of the October Revolution",
- Lot 139: Collection of Soviet Publications – Technical Literature on Architecture,
- Lot 140: "Soviet Theater", Illustrated Magazine on Theater – Collection of Issues – Moscow, 1930-1932
- Lot 141: Large Collection of Booklets on Cinema and Theatre – Moscow and Leningrad,
- Lot 142: Collection of Anti-Capitalist Booklets – Politics and Literature – Moscow-Leningrad,
- Lot 143: "Questions and Answers", by Joseph Stalin – Paris, 1925 - Modernist cover design
- Lot 144: "The First Five-Year Plan", by Joseph Stalin – Moscow, 1933
- Lot 145: "The Children's Island", Poetry Book for Children by Sasha Chorny – Berlin,
- Lot 146: "Fugitives", a Children's Story by Nikolai Chukovsky – St. Petersburg,
- Lot 147: Two Illustrated Children's Books: "Mishka in Moscow" by Evgeniev Borisov – Moscow, 1927 / "Where is the Cat?
- Lot 148: "Songs of Pishchik", by Nikolai Aseev – Leningrad,
- Lot 149: "The Little Humpbacked Horse", by Pyotr Yershov – Moscow, 1934 – Color Lithographs by Nikolai Rosenfeld
- Lot 150: "The Fire", by Samuil Marshak – Leningrad, 1934 – Color Illustrations by Vladimir Konashevich