Lot 242: FILONOV, PAVEL.

Est: £1,500 GBP - £2,000 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomDecember 08, 2009

Item Overview

Description

PROPEVEN' O PROROSLI MIROVOI [A SERMON-CHANT ON UNIVERSAL SPROUTING]. .PETROGRAD..: MIROVOI RAZTSVET, 1915.
8vo (233 x 185mm.), [limited to 300 copies], 3 plates and cover illustration by the author, original card wrappers with large pictorial label, wrappers rather worn, backstrip torn at head and foot

Artist or Maker

Pavel Nikolaevic Filonov

Literature

Ex-Libris 65; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 101; Hellyer 111

Notes

Filonov's poem, considered by Khlebnikov to be the best work written about the current World War, is a two-part cantata based on the ancient folk song about Ivan the Steward.

Auction Details

Music and Continental Books and Manuscripts

Sotheby's

December 08, 2009, 10:30 AM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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