ZAPISKI POETA, A POETRY BOOK BY I. SELVINSKY WITH
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ZAPISKI POETA, A POETRY BOOK BY I. SELVINSKY WITH WRAPPERS BY EL LISSITZKY
text by SELVINSKY, Ilya Lvovich (Russian, 1899-1968) Zapiski poeta [Poet’s Notes]. Moscow and Leningrad, GIZ, 1928. 12mo (173 x 127 mm). 94 pages. Original two-color photomontage wrappers designed by El Lissitzky. A book of autobiographical poetic novel and poems by Ilya Selvinsky. Bears various gifting inscriptions on title page. Original wrappers restored and reinforced.
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To illustrate the wrapper of this rare constructivist book, Lissitzky used his double exposed photograph of the Dadaist Hans Arp, shot during their collaboration on The Isms of Art, 1914-1924 in 1925.
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text by SELVINSKY, Ilya Lvovich (Russian, 1899-1968) Zapiski poeta [Poet’s Notes]. Moscow and Leningrad, GIZ, 1928. 12mo (173 x 127 mm). 94 pages. Original two-color photomontage wrappers designed by El Lissitzky. A book of autobiographical poetic novel and poems by Ilya Selvinsky. Bears various gifting inscriptions on title page. Original wrappers restored and reinforced.
LOT NOTES
To illustrate the wrapper of this rare constructivist book, Lissitzky used his double exposed photograph of the Dadaist Hans Arp, shot during their collaboration on The Isms of Art, 1914-1924 in 1925.
PLEASE NOTE
If you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.
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ZAPISKI POETA, A POETRY BOOK BY I. SELVINSKY WITH
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