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Description: CHAGALL, Mark (1887-1985), Kazimir Severinovich MALEVICH (1878-1935) and others, and Natan AL'TMAN (1887-1985, illustrator). Iskusstvo Kommuni. [Art of the Commune]. Nos.1-19, all published. Petersburg: Izo. Komissariata Narodnogo Prosveshcheniya, 1918-1919.

19 parts, broadsheet 2° (463 x 308mm). Engraved masteheads. (Short tears and light wear at folds, lightly browned). Custom-made cloth box, morocco label on spine.

A COMPLETE SET. 'The journal played an extremely influential role in the crystallization of avant-garde attitudes and ideas. It was so successful that after three issues Lunacharskii had to warn the journal about its "destructive tendencies with regard to the past and its inclination when speaking as a specific school, to speak on behalf of the government"' (Lodder). Published between December 1918 and April 1919, with contributions from Chagall, Malevich, Mayakovskii, Punin, Brik, and many important figures of the movement. Natan Al'tman designed the masthead. ABPC records no part or set selling at auction for over 30 years. Etkind, Nathan Altman; Hellyer 150 (noting that the British library set lacks numbers 13 and 17, which are supplied in facsimile); Lodder, 'Art of the Commune' in Art Journal, Spring 1993; The Russian Avant-Garde Book, p.164.

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