5 June 2019 Important Russian Art Auctions, at Asia House
5 June 2019
128. KUSTODIEV, BORIS (1878–1927)
Album of Sixteen Autolithographs, St Petersburg, Komitet populiarizatsii khudozhestvennykh izdanii, 1921;
with paper cover, foretitle with a bookplate by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and endpaper.
2,000–3,000 GBP
An unnumbered copy from the edition of 300.
Provenance: Collection of V.A. Brilliant (bookplate on the inside of the front cover).
Private collection, Europe.
Related literature: For other copies of the autolithographs, see W. Schmidt, Russische Graphik des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, Leipzig, Seemann, 1967, pp. 169–170, Nos. 1–16, listed.
Exhibition catalogue, Russische Graphik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Nuremberg, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, 1977, Nos. 151, 149, Bather and Merchant and Merchant’s Wife illustrated; Nos. 147–152, listed.
Exhibition catalogue, Russische Graphik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1977, pp. 60–62, Nos. 148, 149, 151, Gostiny Dvor, Merchant and Merchant’s Wife and Bather illustrated; p. 61, Nos. 147–152, listed.
Notes on symbols:
* Indicates 5% Import Duty Charge applies.
Ω Indicates 20% Import Duty Charge applies.
§ Indicates Artist's Resale Right applies.
† Indicates Standard VAT scheme applies, and the rate of 20% VAT will be charged on both hammer price and premium.