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RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE. Ephros, Abram and Nikolai Punin. S. Chekhonin: Master Sovetzkogo Ampira. 1923
(RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE.) Ephros, Abram and Nikolai Punin. S. Chekhonin: Master Sovetzkogo Ampira. 63 color and black-and-white plates of Sergei Chekhonin''s graphic designs and ceramics. 4to, original wrappers with suprematist style design by Chekhonin, light overall soiling and rubbing along extremities, spine browned. Moscow and Petrograd: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel''stvo, 1923
- Notes: scarce first russian-language edition of the monograph on prolific artist Chekhonin. Book designer, illustrator of satiric journals, and member of Mir Iskusstva. He served as artistic director of the Soviet State Porcelain Factory from 1918-1923 and 1925-1927, where his designs for plates using decorative forms, graphics, and slogans for Soviet propaganda are among the best-known. This Russian edition contains the list of Chekhonin''s published illustrations not reproduced in the more common English edition. Hellyer 83 (for English edition).
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