Auction 99 Part 1 Avant-Garde Art and Russian Literature from the Rachel and Joseph Brindt Collection

"The Little Humpbacked Horse", by Pyotr Yershov – Moscow, 1934 – Color Lithographs by Nikolai Rosenfeld

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Конёк-Горбуно́к [The Little Humpbacked Horse], a Russian folk tale by Pyotr Yershov (Ершов), edited by Alexander Tikhonov (Ти́хонов), with an introduction and notes by Mark Azadovsky (Азадовский). Moscow: Academia, 1934. Russian.

Adventure story in verse by Russian writer Pyotr Yershov (first published in 1834). The plot revolves around a poor peasant named Ivan the Fool, who finds a magical horse with a curved back that helps him overcome various challenges and grants him magical power and wisdom.
The story is accompanied by color lithographs by Nikolai Rosenfeld (Николай Борисович Розенфельд; 1886-1938), a Russian-Jewish artist, painter, and graphic artist who worked as a teacher at Vkhutemas and as an artist for the "Academia" publishing house in Moscow. He was the brother of Bolshevik revolutionary Lev Kamenev (Rosenfeld). In 1935, he was implicated in the Kremlin Plot, an alleged conspiracy to assassinate Stalin, and died in custody.

124, [3] pages. With original lithographic cover. 26 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes. Inscriptions and stamps. Abrasions and tears to margins of endpapers, cover, and spine; paper reinforcements to inner side of cover.
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