Russian avant-garde; Lot with 4 books on Russian avant-garde
This lot includes: 1. Rudenstine, Angelica/ Frederick Starr - Russian Avant-Garde Art / The George Costakis Collection - New York, Harry Abrahams Inc. Publishers, pp. - Hardcover with dust jacket - English text - cm - illustrations including 639 in colour.The George Costakis collection contains Russian and Soviet art. Costakis left his home in Moscow in and settled in Athens.His collection was the most comprehensive museum of Soviet and Russian art in the world. The book contains exhaustive text about the man and his collection, images and an extensive chronology. It contains work of more than 65 artists. Complete with artist biographies, documentation, an introduction by S. Frederick Starr and an article by George Costakis, “Collecting Art of the Avant-Garde”. 2. W.Beeren (director Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) - De Grote Utopie: De Russische Avant-Garde / Die Grosse Utopie / the Great Utopia - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, pp. - Dim. cm - Text in Dutch / German / English - Softcover Profusely illustrated exhibition catalogue.Chronology and essays on Russian avant-garde , with more than 650 colour and black-and-white reproductions. 3. Selim Omarovich/Khan Magomedov - Alexandr Viesnin and Russian Constructivism - Rizzoli, New-York, pp. - Hardcover -Dim. cm - With dust jacket (back slightly damaged) - text in English.Beautiful book of this Russian architect with a remarkable vision, who made beautiful designs of theatres and was a talented painter. Beautiful black-and-white and colour illustrations.4. Strigalev, Anatolij/ Jürgen Harten - Vladimir Tatlin - Retrospektive - DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, pp. - Softcover with dust jacket -Text in German and Russian.Catalogue of exhibitions in Baden-Baden / Düsseldorf / Moscow and St. Petersburg.Total: 4 (total weight 7.5 kg) Read More