Group of 45 books on the Russian avant-garde art - photo 1

Group of 45 books on the Russian avant-garde art

Lot 1258
17.12.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 1258 | Group of 45 books on the Russian avant-garde art
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$ 800 – 1 200
RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE – Group of 45 books on the Russian avant-garde art. 20th–21st centuries.

From the private library of Mica and Ahmet Ertegun, this vast collection of works–centred largely on Russian avant-garde art but encompassing global Constructivist and Abstract movements more widely–was amassed from the couple’s years at the forefront of the art market with an eye on assembling a major collection documenting this revolutionary cultural movement.

Malevich. Amsterdam. Stedelijk Museum, 1970.

Toyen. TOYEN. Paris: Filipacchi, 1974. No. 25 of 99, with original print signed.

František Kupka. František Kupka. Paris: Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1977. With original offprints.

Avant-Garde der Konstruktiven Kunst. Basel: Galerie Schreiner, 1978.

The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910–1930: New Perspectives. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980. With select reviews of the exhibition accompanying a TLS from senior curator Maurice Tuchman to Mica and Ahmet Ertegun, 19 October 1981.

American Abstract Artists, 1936–1986. New York: Bronx Musuem of the Arts and Hillwood Art Gallery, 1986.

Margit Rowell and Deborah Wye. The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 1910–1934. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002.

With 38 additional texts. Sold as a group not subject to return.
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