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[ON JAPON WITH DOUBLE SUITE] - Boris Godounov.
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[ON JAPON WITH DOUBLE SUITE] - Boris Godounov.

by POUCHKINE, Alexandre and Vasily CHOUKHAEFF (artist) [PUSHKIN and SHUKHAEV].

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FRESH EXAMPLE OF THE DELUXE VERSION ON JAPON IMPÉRIAL (№10 OF ONLY 18 COPIES), WITH THE TWO ADDITIONAL SUITES AND SIGNED BY SCHIFFRIN, who translated and published the work. One suite is in colour, like in the book, the other in black and white; the total print run was only 445 copies.
Shukhaev (1887-1973) studied at the Higher Artistic School of the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg from 1906 to 1912 under Dmitrii Kardovskii, who taught him the art of fine draughtsmanship.
The artist's collaboration with Schiffrin started with his illustrations for Pushkin's Queen of Spades, which met success upon publication in 1923. For his Godounov, Shukhaev drew on the Russian icon painting tradition, contemporary with the actual Boris Godunov, and managed to combine it with dramatic shapes and bold colours so representative of Russian art in Paris in the 1920s. The striking result demonstrates artist's extraordinary ability to visually communicate the atmosphere of the written work.
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[OPERA COSTUMES IN UKRAINE & AZERBAIJAN] - Collection of costume designs for opera and ballet.
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[OPERA COSTUMES IN UKRAINE & AZERBAIJAN] - Collection of costume designs for opera and ballet.

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Colorful collection of original drawings showing costume designs for world famous ballets and operas by various artists for the Odessa, Kharkov, Kiev and Baku theatres.The collection includes costume designs for dancers in the Walpurgis Night scene from Faust; for Patriarch and Boris Godunov in Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky; for the ladies-in-waiting of Elsa von Brabant in Lohengrin by Richard Wagner; for the Pharaoh's daughter Amneris in Aida by Verdi; for Onegin, Tatiana and Lenskii in Eugene Oneginby Petr Tchaikovsky. The most impressive and detailed are multiple costume designs for the ballet The Maiden Tower choreographed by Vakhtang Vronskii (1905-88) for Odessa, Kiev and Baku theatres. This ballet, with music by Afrasiyab Badalbayli, premiered in 1940 and was the first Azerbaijani ballet and the first ballet in the Muslim East. A very unusual group opening several angles for further research.DescriptionCollection of 29 works on paper, one double-sided, various sizes: from app. 29 x 19 cm… Read More
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[OPTICAL THEATRE IN 1830s MOSCOW] - [Kinetozographic Views. Announcement]. Kinetozograficheskie...
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[OPTICAL THEATRE IN 1830s MOSCOW] - [Kinetozographic Views. Announcement]. Kinetozograficheskie vidy. Obiavlenie.

by KUPARENKO, Iordakii.

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Rare broadside for an impressive kinetozographic theatre of 400 animated figures in Moscow, by a hot-air balloon enthusiast now in the Guinness World Records.
Forerunners of cinema ("kino" in Russian), kinetozographic (from the Greek, kinetos – "moving", zoon
– "animal" and grapho – "write") or, as it was often called, optical theatres specialized in showing images in motion. They appeared in Russia in the late 18th century, using light and images placed on a small stage, often only in a box, with side mechanisms animating various objects. In 1805, a Moscow student writes that he went to a New Year's Eve kinetozographic show and was absolutely amazed with the very lively and radiant scenes he saw in that "tiny theatre" (Zhikharev, 174).
Iordakii Kuparenko (also Jordaki, 1780-1844) brought the show to another level and became one of the main innovators in this field: no "tiny theatre" anymore on this broadside, but a rich show with firing canons, an erupting Vesuvius, 400 animated figures, and… Read More
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[ORIGINAL DRAWINGS WITH PROVENANCE] - Drawings of Napoleon's Imperial Guard AND Regiments of the...
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[ORIGINAL DRAWINGS WITH PROVENANCE] - Drawings of Napoleon's Imperial Guard AND Regiments of the Line

by LAUDY, Lucien

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Two albums in attractive Napoleonic-style morocco bindings with original hand-painted sketches of Napoleon's army soldiers in Waterloo by "an eminent local historian" (Uffindell).On the night from 17th to 18th June 1815, Napoleon and his close guards choose a rural farm of Le Caillou as their headquarters before the battle of Waterloo: the emperor camped in the orchard under the protection of the Imperial Guard and drew the next day's battle plans in the rooms of the farmhouse. Following the battle, the farm was burnt down by the Prussians and then rebuilt by different owners, becoming a tavern, coaching inn and private residency. Almost a century later, a new owner of Le Caillou, historian Lucien Laudy (1885-1948) turned this site into a place of pilgrimage: throughout most of his life, he collected souvenirs of the battle and built in the farm garden a small brick ossuary of the remnants of soldiers from 1815.An experienced connoisseur of the subject, Laudy created these two albums of colourful… Read More
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