Lot 180
  • 180

Shevchenko, Aleksandr.

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Printsipi kubizma i drugikh sovremmenykh techenii v zhivopisi vsekh vremen i narodov [Principles of cubism and other contemporary trends in the art of all periods and all peoples]. Moscow: the author, 1913
  • Paper
8vo (167 x 134mm.), 24 leaves of lithographed typescript text, 9 lithographed plates by Shevchenko, Bart, Goncharova and Larionov, original lithographed illustrated wrappers by Shevchenko, small hole in a few leaves with very slight loss, a few leaves shaved at head or foot, title-page repaired at foredge, new backstrip slightly affecting illustration on upper cover

Literature

Hellyer 482; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 51

Condition

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Catalogue Note

In the same year Shevchenko also wrote a short treatise on neoprimitivism in art.