1922 · Berlin
(El Lissitzky) Erste Russische Kunstausstellung, Berlin, 1922. First Russian Art Exhibition, Berlin, 1922. Galerie Van Diemen & Co. (Berlin) and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam in 1923, with Dutch translation insert). 5 ¾ x 9". German and Dutch versions of these seminal exhibitions in the West of Russian avant-garde art. Lissitzky cover designs with illustrated works of Kustodiev, Burliuk, Falk, Filonov, Konchalovsky, Chagall, Pevsner, Popova, Exter, Malevich, Rodchenko, Kandinsky, Sterenberg, Altman, Lissitzky, Puni, Tatlin and Gabo. Moderate foxing on German covers and small paper loss at Stedelijk label on Dutch cover. $8,500 for the pair.
(Inventory #: 2020-21)