Lot 170
"Rome" by Nikolai Gogol – Lithographs by Philippe Hosiasson – Berlin, 1924 – Numbered Copy of a Limited Edition
Рим [Rome], by Nikolai Gogol. Illustrations by Philippe Hosiasson. Berlin: Вальтер и Ракинт (Walter, Rakint & Co.), 1924. Russian. Limited edition.
Illustrated edition of the unfinished work "Rome" by Nikolai Gogol, which was written in 1824.
Copy no. 45 from an edition of 400 copies, with five illustrations (lithographs) by Philippe Hosiasson.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852), a Russian writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin, one of the greatest writers of Russian and European literature in the 19th century.
Philippe Hosiasson (1898-1978), a Jewish painter and illustrator, born in Odessa. In the 1920s he settled in Paris; fought and was wounded during World War II. His work is identified with the School of Paris and with abstract painting after World War II.
43, [3] pp. + 5 plates (lithographs), 25 cm. Good condition. Several unopened pages. Dampstains and minor blemishes to binding.
