Lot 218: KUL'BIN, Nikolai Ivanovich (1868-1917). Studiia Impressionistov . [Impressionists' Studio]. St. Petersburg: N.I. Butkovskaia, 1910.

Name: KUL'BIN, Nikolai Ivanovich (1868-1917). Studiia Impressionistov . [Impressionists' Studio]. St. Petersburg: N.I. Butkovskaia, 1910.
Brand: Christie's
SKU: nn4r8klbeb

Est: £1,800 GBP - £2,500 GBPSold:

Christie'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 29, 2007

Item Overview

Description

KUL'BIN, Nikolai Ivanovich (1868-1917). Studiia Impressionistov. [Impressionists' Studio]. St. Petersburg: N.I. Butkovskaia, 1910.

8° (285 x 100mm). 5 chromolithographs mounted on card and tipped-in, as issued, illustrations. (Light wear on the title.) Original illustrated wrappers (laid-down on card, re-backed and repaired in the margins).

FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE, EARLY AVANT-GARDE PUBLICATION, which includes Khlebnikov's most famous trans-rational poem 'Zakliatie Smekhom', Nikolai Kul'bin's important essays 'Free Art as the Basis of Life' and 'Free Music: Results of the Application of the Theory of Artistic Creation', Nikolai Evreinov's 'The Presentation of Love', and with contributions from David and Nikolai Burliuk and others. Illustrations after Aleksandr Andreev, Nikolai Kul'bin, Evgenii Vashchenko, Liudmila Shmit-Ryzhova, and A.A. Nikolaev, MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 4.

Artist or Maker

Nikolaj Ivanovic Kul'bin

Notes

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Auction Details

Valuable Russian Books and Manuscripts

Christie's

November 29, 2007, 12:00 AM EST

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK

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