Auction 99 Part 1 Avant-Garde Art and Russian Literature from the Rachel and Joseph Brindt Collection
By Kedem
Nov 5, 2024
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem., Israel
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MoMA = Margit Rowell and Deborah Wye, The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934. New York: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002.
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LOT 1:

Three Futurist Poetry Books – 1918-1919

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Auction took place on Nov 5, 2024 at Kedem
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Three Futurist Poetry Books – 1918-1919

Three Futurist poetry books:


• Сердце народное — Стенька Разин. Поэма [The People's Heart – Stenka Razin. A Poem], by Vasily Kamensky. Moscow, 1918. Russian.
A revolutionary poem by Kamensky (Васи́лий Васи́льевич Каме́нский; 1884-1961), about the 17th-century Cossack Stenka Razin, who led an uprising against the Russian Tsarist regime.
[17] leaves. 25 cm. Fair to fair-poor condition. Minor stains. Tears and open tears. Inscriptions. Rebound with original paper wrappers.


• Лирень [Liren], a collection of Futurist poems by Nikolai Aseev (Асе́ев), Yelena Guro (Гуро́), Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Grigory Petnikov (Пе́тников), and Velimir Khlebnikov (Хле́бников). [Moscow:] 1920. Russian. Designed by Mariia Siniakova (Мария Михайловна Синякова-Уречина; 1898-1989).
40 pages. 16 cm. Good condition. Stains and creases. Minor tears to margins of one leaf.
MoMA 316.


• Толстой – Горький. Поэмы [Tolstoy - Gorky. Poems], by David Burliuk. New York: Марии Никифоровны Бурлюк, 1929. Russain.
Two poems by David Burliuk (Давид Давидович Бурлюк; 1882-1967), one written in honor of Leo Tolstoy's 100th birth anniversary, and the other in honor of Maxim Gorky's 60th birthday, accompanied by two illustrations by Burliuk.

32 pages. 22 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Slight wear and minor blemishes to top of leaves. Hole and foxing at the point where the gatherings were stapled (staples missing). Detached wrappers and gatherings. Wear and minor tears to wrappers.


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