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[FEMALE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR] Korabli [ i.e. Ships]

Demianova-Donier, G.

Item #2456

Leningrad; Moscow: Raduga, 1928. [12] pages, including wrappers. 18,5x14,5 cm. Lithographed throughout in red, green, tan and black. Pictorial wrappers, some soiling and wear, small piece of lower right-hand corner filled in, light soiling to contents. Otherwise good.

First edition.
Illustrated with simplified drawings, including silhouette figures, by Elizaveta Kruglikova (1865-1941), a prominent painter and graphic artist. During the 1890's she studied at the Moscow College under A. Arkhipov, I. Pryanishnikov and K. Korovin. In 1897, she exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris. She exhibited with the World of Art both before and after the Revolution and in 1913 had a solo show in St. Petersburg. From 1918 to 1929 she taught at the Free Art Studios/Vkhutein in Petrograd and Leningrad. She was included in the Third Touring Exhibition of the Sovetsk Regional sub-department of the Museums Bureau with Kandinsky, Rodchenko and others in 1921. She participated in the 1925
Paris International Exhibition and that same year had a solo show in Kazan. The silhouette figures in Korabli are reminiscent of some of her better known works which were executed with cut and torn black paper.

Not in the Worldcat.

Price: $950.00