Lot 97
Lebedev, Vladimir
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 26 May 2010 at 12:00 BST
Description
Russian placards, placard Russe 1917-1922. St Petersburg: Petersburg branch of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee News ("Izvestiya Vtsik"), 1923. First part, small 4to (214 x 189mm.), limited to 1700 copies, 23 coloured lithographs by Lebedev (with extra copy of plate XIII), with accompanying guard sheets with captions in English and French, original wrappers with further design on upper cover, cloth folder, contemporary inscription at head of title-page, inside upper hinge slightly worn and torn
Footnote
Note: Hellyer 277; Ex-Libris 153; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 474
This fine series of posters was executed by Lebedev for the show-windows of the Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA) in St Petersburg for propaganda purposes. This was the first of an intended two-part series. Lebedev's strong geometric images were based on folk art but display the strong influence of Neoprimitivism and contemporary Abstraction.