Bloomsbury Auctions: The Ivan Collection of Russian Literature and Works on Paper: The Property of a New York Collector: Lot 127
MALEVICH, Kazimir Severinovich (1878-1935)
MALEVICH, Kazimir Severinovich (1878-1935) (illustrator) and Nikolai PUNIN. Pervyi tsikl lektsii, chitannykh na kratkosrochnykh kursakh dlya uchitelei risovaniya. Sovremenoe iskusstvo [The First Series of Lectures, Given at a Short-Term Course for Teachers of Drawing. Suprematist Art]. Petrograd: Izo NKP, 1920. 84 pp., 8vo (212 x 140 mm). Original pink letterpress wrappers designed by Malevich. Condition: light thumbsoiling to wrappers, reglued at backstrip with minor repairs to verso of front wrapper, faded rubber stamp to last leaf. one of no more than 2000 copies. Malevich outlines a pedagogy uniquely his own in the pursuit of a pure Suprematism that he himself invented. In the catalog to the Tenth State Exhibition in 1917, Malevich proclaimed: "I have broken the blue shade of color boundaries and come out into white. Behind me comrade pilots swim in the whiteness. I have established the semaphore of Suprematism." MoMA 307.
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The Ivan Collection of Russian Literature and Works on Paper: The Property of a New York Collector
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2008
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