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

Collection of Illustrated Soviet Periodicals – Issues Designed by Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, Gustav Klutsis, the Stenberg Brothers, and Other Artists – Moscow-Leningrad, 1926-1931

Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,625
Including buyer's premium

A collection of 18 issues of Soviet journals and magazines:


• Даёшь [Let's Produce], a workers' magazine concerned with politics, society, literature, and art. Moscow: Рабочая Москва, 1929. Russian. Four (out of 14) issues (nos. 7, 10, 11, 14). With numerous illustrations and images. Covers designed by Alexander Rodchenko and others.

• Пионер [Pioneer], an illustrated bi-weekly children's magazine, organ of the Central Communist Youth Movement named after Vladimir Lenin under the Central Committee of the Komsomol (ЦК РКСМ). Moscow: Молодая гвардия, 1928. Russian. Issue no. 7, April 1928. Issue designed by Alexander Rodchenko.

• Экран [Screen]. An issue dedicated to the production of the film "Mabul" (Мабул), based on a story by Sholem Aleichem. Moscow: Rabochaya Gazeta, 1926. Second year, issue no. 12. Russian. Cover designed by Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg brothers (Стенберг).

• Красная нива [Red Wheat Field], a Soviet literary-artistic magazine. Moscow: Известия ВЦИК, 1926-1929. Russian. Four issues (Year 1926, issue nos. 21 and 49; Year 1928, issue no. 13; Year 1929, issue no. 23). With numerous illustrations and images. Covers designed by brothers Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg and others. MoMA 673.

• Строительство Москвы [Building Moscow], a monthly magazine dealing with various construction projects in Moscow. Moscow: 1929-1931. Russian. Seven issues (Sixth year, 1929, issue no. 7; Seventh year, 1930, issue nos. 3-4, 8-9, and 11; Eighth year, 1931, issue nos. 3 and 4). Covers designed by brothers Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg.

• Советский Экран [Soviet Screen], a magazine about the film industry in the Soviet Union. Moscow: Теа-кино-печать, 1928. Russian. Issue no. 30, July 24, 1928. Designed by Varvara Stepanova.

• За пролетарское искусство [For Proletarian Art], organ of the "Russian Association of Proletarian Artists" (Российской ассоциации пролетарских художников). Moscow-Leningrad: Изогиз-Oгиз, 1931. Double issue nos. 3-4, March-April 1931. Russian. Issue designed by Gustav Klutsis and others.





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Illustrated Booklets, Leaflets and Periodicals (Architecture, Cinema, Theater and Politics)
Illustrated Booklets, Leaflets and Periodicals (Architecture, Cinema, Theater and Politics)