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KRUCHENIKH, Aleksei Eliseevich and Natalya GONCHAROVA (illustrator). Dve Poemy. Pustynniki; Pustynnitsa. [Hermits; Hermitess. Two Poems]. [Moscow:] Mukharsky for Kuz'min and Dolinskii, [1913].
8° (187 x 142mm). 14 lithographs by Goncharova, lithographed manuscript text throughout. (Small tears at edges.) Original wrappers with a lithograph by Larionov (front joint starting, small tears at extremities, spine with some loss). Provenance: Contemporary reader, St Petersburg (signature on front cover, dated ?1922).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS PROVOCATIVE WORK. One of 480 copies only. 'Larionov and Goncharova -- the first collaborators on Kruchenikh's texts -- created the visual conception of lithographic publications from which all subsequent ones derived' (The Russian Avant-Garde Book p.62). The present work juxtaposes textual and visual interpretations of holy images with cubist landscapes or erotic compositions. The back cover presents a brief lithographed catalogue of Futurist works, including Igra v' Adu, Pomada and Poluzhivoi. The Russian Avant-Garde Book 28, ills. p.78; Hellyer 241.
8° (187 x 142mm). 14 lithographs by Goncharova, lithographed manuscript text throughout. (Small tears at edges.) Original wrappers with a lithograph by Larionov (front joint starting, small tears at extremities, spine with some loss). Provenance: Contemporary reader, St Petersburg (signature on front cover, dated ?1922).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS PROVOCATIVE WORK. One of 480 copies only. 'Larionov and Goncharova -- the first collaborators on Kruchenikh's texts -- created the visual conception of lithographic publications from which all subsequent ones derived' (The Russian Avant-Garde Book p.62). The present work juxtaposes textual and visual interpretations of holy images with cubist landscapes or erotic compositions. The back cover presents a brief lithographed catalogue of Futurist works, including Igra v' Adu, Pomada and Poluzhivoi. The Russian Avant-Garde Book 28, ills. p.78; Hellyer 241.
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