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ILIAZD, Ilia Zdanevitch, dit (1894-1975)

Lot 75
12.05.2022 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 75 | ILIAZD, Ilia Zdanevitch, dit (1894-1975)
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€ 4 000 – 6 000
ILIAZD, Ilia Zdanevitch, dit (1894-1975). Lidantiu faram. (Ledentu le phare). Paris : 41°, 1923. Édition originale de l'un des plus beaux livres jamais imprimés. Le héros éponyme de cette pièce est le peintre Mikhail Ledentu, qu'Iliazd avait rencontré par l'entremise de son frère Kirill. Mobilisé, Ledentu meurt avant son retour du front, en 1917, à l'âge de 26 ans. Iliazd lui rend cet hommage posthume, forme d'apothéose mêlée d'une réflexion autour des liens entre l'art, la réalité et la mort. "In respect to typography, [Lidantiu faram] is probably the most luxurious one in the world, with hundreds of different sorts of letters used so that the pages become visual works of art in which letters and page numbers jostle one another, fly, jump, and somersault. [The book] is a synthesis of all Zdanevitch's previous trends and motifs. It is mocking and satirical, but, like the Zga play, it investigates the nature of relaity, this time in its relation to art. [...] The play, which combines slapstick with the solution of aesthetic problems, may be considered the oddest literary work of Russia, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece of the Russian poetic avant-garde" Markov, The Russian Avant-garde book, pp. 354-356 ; Hellyer, n°144 ; Getty Museum, Russian modernism, cat. 249 ; MoMA, Iliazd and the Illustrated book, 1962, cat. 8. In-8 (190 x 145 mm), broché, non coupé. Tirage annoncé à 530 exemplaires, celui-ci l'un des 500 sur papier Rubel, n°250. Il semble que le tirage réel ait plutôt été de 150 exemplaires. Le reste de l’édition aurait été envoyé au pilon (F. C. dans Iliazd, 1978 : 110). Couverture illustrée d’un collage original de Naum Granovsky. Typographie et mise en page d'Ilia Zdanevitch.[Joint :]Ledentu Le Phare. (Préface de G. Ribemont-Dessaignes). Paris, Editions du 41°, 1947. In-8 (185 x 135 mm), (8 pp.), broché, couv. impr. ocre. Exemplaire de la préface de Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes revêtu en 1947 d’une couverture imprimée du texte suivant : "Ce texte est la préface de Ribemont-Dessaignes pour un livre par Iliazd paru à Paris il y a vingt-quatre ans. Les éditeurs redonnent en cette année 1947 quelques exemplaires restés pour prendre part à une discussion et rappeler l’oeuvre de celui qui fut le véritable fondateur du lettrisme". Rowell n°459 et ill p. 126-127.First edition of this most luxurious book, one of the milestones of Russian Avant-garde. One of the supposedly 500 issued copies on papier Rubel. The actual print run was probably more in the region of 150 copies at most.
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