Livres et Manuscrits, de Galilée à Warhol
Livres et Manuscrits, de Galilée à Warhol
Avant-garde russe ─ Lots 55 à 71
O novykh sistemakh v iskusstve. Vitebsk, 1919-1920. Très rare plaquette d'un texte de Malevitch et des illustrations de El Lissitzky et de l'auteur lui-même.
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[Avant-garde russe] ─ Kasimir Malevitch — El Lissitzky
O novykh sistemakh v iskusstve. [Des nouveaux systèmes dans l'art].
Vitebsk, 1919-1920.
Plaquette in-4 (260 x 195 mm). En feuilles, sous couverture illustrée.
Très rare plaquette.
"A masterpiece in the history of the illustrated book and [...] of the Artist's Book" (Karshan).
Édition originale.
Plaquette lithographiée, imprimée sous la direction d'El Lissitzky dans les ateliers de l’école de Vitebsk.
Couverture illustrée de bois gravés, titre manuscrit lithographié de Lissitzky.
Texte manuscrit lithographié de Malevitch, illustrations de Malevitch et de Lissitzky.
6 illustrations lithographiées de Malevitch, dont 3 en feuilles, glissées dans le volume ("Nu dynamique" de 1911, personnages cubistes et composition cubiste avec vache et violon).
Acquis auprès de Dorothea Carus (Carus Gallery, New York), dans les années 1980-1990.
The Russian avant-garde book, MOMA, n° 236, repr. p. 147.
The Great Utopia, The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde 1915-1932, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1992, repr. p.41.
Russian Modernism The collections of The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and The Humanities, Los Angeles, 1997, nº 476, p. 101.
“These publications, including Malevich's On New Systems in Art (1919; p. 147) and Suprematism: Thirty-Four Drawings (1920; pp. 148-50), were supervised by Lissitzky, who directed the print workshop at Vitebsk. He compared a book to an architectural structure that should be built with the aid of typographic machinery, but could not achieve this ideal due to a shortage of equipment. Therefore, printed production, accomplished on the only available lithographic press, hardly corresponded to UNOVIS's objective of the "creation of a contemporary type of book." Lissitzky's own Suprematist book was realized only later in his Of Two Squares: A Suprematist Tale in Six Constructions (1922; pp. 153-55): a book for children about two squares, black and red, that fly to earth from afar. Printed in Berlin, A Suprematist Tale unites the cosmic ideas of Suprematism and the Constructivist techniques of book design.” (Moma, p. 146).
"The two principal graphic efforts of Malevich are On New Systems in Art, 1919 with nine lithographic images to illustrate the artist's text, and far more ambitious, his Suprematism. 34 Drawings of 1920. Both of these artist's books were published in Vitebsk ... Why much extraordinary rarity? ... The Vitebsk-Malevich books were probably printed in editions of about 1,000 examples each. Those surviving examples stored in Vitebsk were destroyed during the German onslaught of World War II, which completely devastated the city.
On New Systems in Art is a masterpiece in the history of the illustrated book and in the short history, by 1919, of the Artist's Book. The entire book, with the exception of the covers (by woodcut) were printed by hand-pulled lithogra-phy. The first three pages of the publication consists of an introductory section devoted solely to a series of pedagogical drawings and some caption text ... Following this essay are three pages consisting of eighteen resolutions on art, three progressively larger black squares and two further statements." (Karshan).
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