Art from Biblionne

One of 5 000 copies published. Very rare. The exhibit of the Stenberg Brothers' movie posters is presented for the first time. In 1922, Vladimir Lenin famously stated, "...you must well remember that, of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important." Following nationalization of the movie industry in 1919, the first state-owned movie company, Goskino, was established in… Read more about this item

N.p., ca 1933. Extremely rare Russian abstract handmade paste paper from the 1930s. Russian artist Mikhail Tarkhanov (1888-1962), a master of endpapers and bookbinding, created it. He used the special technique of surface painting onto paper with the paste mixture. Each one of them is unique. Paste papers, the oldest decorated papers used by bookbinders, are practically unknown in Russia. Mikhail Tarkhanov… Read more about this item

One of 10 000 copies published. The issue includes photos by Arkady Shaikhet, Georgy Lipskerov, Abram Shterenberg, Dmitri Debabov and Ivan Shagin. Sovetskoe Foto magazine was issued with two pauses from 1926 to 1991 and included editorials, letters, articles, photographic essays and works by Soviet and international photographers, advertisements for photography, photographic processes, photographic chemicals and equipment.

With Varvara Stepanova stamp on the back cover's turnover. Artist's copy. One of 10 000 copies published. Cover and typography design were prepared by Russian constructivist artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958). She was a long-time partner of Alexander Rodchenko. The stamp contains their home and workshop address. The issue also contains posters and photomontage from Vladimir Mayakovsky's books by Alexander Rodchenko.

One of 4 500 (# 22), 6 200 (# 3, 5) and 10 000 copies (others) printed. Cover and typography design were prepared by Russian constructivist artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958). She was long-time partner of Alexander Rodchenko.She designed posters, books, magazines, and clothes. In 1919-1920 she was assistant director of the art and literature section of IZO Narkompros (The Department… Read more about this item

In original illustrated photomotage wrappers. In good condition, minor losses on the spine, carefully repaired, cracks on the front cover, wear at the edges. Limited to 4 500 copies. IZORAM (Mass Organization of Komsomol Amateurs Art) appeared in 1925 in Leningrad as the Association of Visual Arts Groups for Young Workers to develop a new, avant-garde language of amateur arts and… Read more about this item

One of 2 000 copies printed. The Four Arts community united those artists who had exhibited with the pre-revolution associations Mir Iskusstva and Blue Rose. It was named Four Arts because it included painters, sculptors, graphic artists and architects (for example, Alexey Shchusev and Ivan Zholtovsky). The artists declared the value of individual and the necessity of preserving figurative culture. First… Read more about this item

One of 1 000 copies printed. In October 1928 the first art exhibition of Soviet domestic textiles opened in Moscow. Exhibitors included textile factories and their designers, schools, students, and working faculty members. After the Civil War Soviet people direly needed in the new functional clothing for every occasion such as industrial work clothes, sporting garments, or specialized labor uniforms. That's… Read more about this item

Tender original illustration for the first Russian translation of J.M. Barrie's play Peter Pan: The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (issued in 1971). May Miturich (Miturich-Khlebnikov, 1925–2008) was a 'classic' of children's illustration and nephew of futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov. He studied under his father, an artist Petr Miturich and at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, where later he taught.… Read more about this item

Ephemera from the exhibition Russian Samizdat Art held in Los Angeles in 1984. It was curated by Russian conceptualist artists Rimma and Valery Gelovin. The Gerlovins emigrated to the US in 1979. The show started in New York in 1982 and presented in many cities in the USA and Canada. For each place Gerlovins created new environment with the works. At… Read more about this item

One of 5 000 copies printed. First life-time monograph about Hungarian painter Béla Uitz (1887-1972). He joined Lajos Kassák's avant-garde cicle in 1916. During Hungarian Republic of Councils he became a member of the Directorate of Art. In 1926 Uitz went to the Soviet Union and became a professor of VHUTEMAS. First Uitz exhibition in Russia took place in December 1926-… Read more about this item