Important European Collection of Russian Art, plus Other Properties

30 May 2020

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Album of Sixteen Autolithographs

104. 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.
1,600–3,000 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.

Album of Sixteen Autolithographs

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