6 June 2018 Russian Art Auctions

6 June 2018

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Fore-Title and Headpieces for the K. Petrov-Vodkin Book "Aoiia. Prikliuchenia Andriushi i Kati v vozdukhe, pod zemlei i na zemle"

144. PETROV-VODKIN, KUZMA (1878-1939)

Fore-Title and Headpieces for the K. Petrov-Vodkin Book "Aoiia. Prikliuchenia Andriushi i Kati v vozdukhe, pod zemlei i na zemle", signed with a monogram.

Pencil and ink on paper, 40 by 27.5 cm.
8,000-12,000 GBP


Executed c. 1914.

Exhibited: Vystavka russkogo izobrazitelnogo iskusstva nachala 20 veka. Iz chastnykh sobranii Leningrada, Leningrad, 1985.

Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Yu. Gogolitsyn (ed.), Vystavka russkogo izobrazitelnogo iskusstva nachala 20 veka. Iz chetyrekh chastnykh sobranii Leningrada, Leningrad, Upravlenie kultury Lenoblispolkoma, 1985, p. 16, listed.

Related Literature: For the printed version of the present work, see K. Petrov-Vodkin, Aoiia. Prikliucheniia Andriushi i Kati v vozdukhe, pod zemlei i na zemle, St Petersburg, Griaduschii den, 1914, p. 6, illustrated.


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