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[LEBEDEV] Kras' i Risuy [i.e. Paint and Draw]

Orlova, N.

Item #2459

Leningrad: Ogiz, 1932. [12] pages, including wrappers. 11,7x14,7 cm. Lithographed throughout with images by Lebedev: text on rear wrapper. Pictorial wrappers by Lebedev, minor soiling and
wear. Otherwise very good.

Interesting pictorial piece by Lebedev with images of five animals - a zebra, rhinoceros, giraffe, deer and elephant.

Vladimir Vasilievich Lebedev (1891–1967), an important artist of the Revolution, studied at the Academy in 1912–16 under Mikhail Bernshtein and Shervud. He contributed drawings to the journal Novy Satirikon from 1913 and attended meetings at the apartment of Lev Bruni in St. Petersburg 1914–16. He was a founder of the society Apartment No.5 in Petrograd along with Bruni, Isakov, Tyrsa, Miturich, Punin and Tatlin in 1915. After the Revolution he made lubok prints on Revolutionary themes in Petrograd in 1917 and was also engaged on Agitprop decorations for the Politseisky Bridge, Petrograd, in 1918. He was quick to respond to the requirements of the resolution moved by Meyerhold in 1920, stressing the need for an art of propaganda and was
invited to make posters for the Rosta Agency, the Petrograd branch of which he directed together with Vladimir Kozlinsky.
His designs for posters in 1920 focused upon images of Foche, Denikin and others in a bold and assertive form of caricature with easily comprehended political purpose. He was a dramatic graphic artist employing a technique which resembled cut paper in the sharpness and economy of the image.
With Vladimir Mayakovsky, he designed posters for Rosta windows in 1920–1. He was included in the enormous survey Exhibition of Paintings by Petrograd Artists of All Tendencies 1919–1923
held in Petrograd in 1923.

He illustrated several children's stories by Samuil Marshak and was represented at the Paris International Exhibition of 1925 and was included in the major exhibition in Moscow in 1927 marking
the tenth anniversary of the Revolution. He returned to designing propaganda window posters for Tass in 1942–5, depicting anti-Fascist themes.

Worldact shows copies at University of Washington, University of Chicago, John Hopkins, Princeton University and New York Public Library.

Price: $950.00