Auction 99 Part 1 Avant-Garde Art and Russian Literature from the Rachel and Joseph Brindt Collection
Collection of Cover Proofs and Trial Prints – Designed by Alexander Rodchenko, Nikolai Lapshin and Alexander Samokhvalov / Lithographic Binder Designed by Vladimir Lebedev
Opening: $300
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Collection of cover proofs, trial prints and a portfolio binding with a lithographic print:
• Portfolio binding – front features a lithographic print by
Vladimir Lebedev: illustration of a Russian Navy sailor and a Red Army soldier defending Russia's borders (a similar print appeared in Lebedev's book: "Russian Posters 1917-1922" (Русский плакат 1917-1922); St. Petersburg, 1923 – see Lot 78 [English-French version]).
• Trial print of the cover for "New LEF" (Новый ЛЕФ) journal – "New Left Front of the Arts", issue No. 11. Moscow: Госиздата Красный пролетарий, 1928.
The cover was designed by
Alexander Rodchenko (with images from the 1929 silent film "Man with a Movie Camera" by Dziga Vertov). Front and back covers. Inscriptions and stamps on the cover.
• Trial print of the cover of the book on the development of writing "Черным по белому" [Black on White], by M. Ilyin (М. Ильин; 1895-1953 – pen name of Ilya Marshak, younger brother of Samuel Marshak). [Moscow-Leningrad]: Государственное издательство, [1928].
The cover was designed by
Nikolai Lapshin (Никола́й Фёдорович Лапши́н; 1891-1942). Front and back covers unbound and unused.
• Trial print of the cover of the children's book "Наш город" [Our City], by Alexander Samokhvalov (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самохва́лов; 1894-1971). Moscow-Leningrad: Государственное издательство, 1927. The cover was also designed by the author,
Alexander Samokhvalov. Front and back covers unbound and unused.
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Original Illustrations, Sketches and Prints
Original Illustrations, Sketches and Prints