![ILIAZD [i.e. Il'ia ZDANEVICH] (1894-1975) Lidantiu faram. [Lidantiu as a Beacon.] Paris: Éditions 41°, 1923. 4° (190 x 140mm). Typography by Iliazd. (Edges lightly yellowed.) Original grey-brown wrappers with printed design and collage of onlaid gold and silver paper, cork and synthetic material by Naum Granovskii (spine foot chipped and with short tear at the joint); custom-made paper covered clamshell case. Provenance: Iliazd (presentation inscription, dated 20 October 1923, to:) -- Viktor Bart (1887-1954).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_07558_0320_000(iliazd_ie_ilia_zdanevich_lidantiu_faram_lidantiu_as_a_beacon_paris_edi072422).jpg?w=1){kind=tracking}
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ILIAZD [i.e. Il'ia ZDANEVICH] (1894-1975) Lidantiu faram. [Lidantiu as a Beacon.] Paris: Éditions 41°, 1923. 4° (190 x 140mm). Typography by Iliazd. (Edges lightly yellowed.) Original grey-brown wrappers with printed design and collage of onlaid gold and silver paper, cork and synthetic material by Naum Granovskii (spine foot chipped and with short tear at the joint); custom-made paper covered clamshell case. Provenance: Iliazd (presentation inscription, dated 20 October 1923, to:) -- Viktor Bart (1887-1954).
FIRST EDITION. A RARE PRESENTATION COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S MASTERPIECE, INSCRIBED BY ILIAZD NEAR THE TIME OF PUBLICATION TO AVANT-GARDE ARTIST VIKTOR BART. Bart was one of the organisers of the influential Futurist exhibitions 'Knave of Diamonds', 'Donkey's Tail', and 'Target'. After emigrating to Paris Bart shared a house with Goncharova and Larionov, with whom he had collaborated to illustrate Principles of Cubism (1913). Bart designed the Soviet pavilion at the influential Paris International Exhibition of 1925. At the time of the inscription, Iliazd and Bart jointly led the group 'Cherez'. Lidantiu faram, with its remarkable typography, and the stunning collage cover by Granovskii mark 'a moment of synthesis and a culminating point in his formal experiments' (Isselbacher, p.37). Number 372 of 500 copies on Rubel paper; this one without the printed leaflet sometimes found laid-into some copies. Isselbacher, Iliazd and the Illustrated Book, p.37; Johnson and Stein, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 37 ('masterpiece of the Russian poetic avant-garde'); MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book 458, 459; Stein, Libri cubisti 30.
FIRST EDITION. A RARE PRESENTATION COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S MASTERPIECE, INSCRIBED BY ILIAZD NEAR THE TIME OF PUBLICATION TO AVANT-GARDE ARTIST VIKTOR BART. Bart was one of the organisers of the influential Futurist exhibitions 'Knave of Diamonds', 'Donkey's Tail', and 'Target'. After emigrating to Paris Bart shared a house with Goncharova and Larionov, with whom he had collaborated to illustrate Principles of Cubism (1913). Bart designed the Soviet pavilion at the influential Paris International Exhibition of 1925. At the time of the inscription, Iliazd and Bart jointly led the group 'Cherez'. Lidantiu faram, with its remarkable typography, and the stunning collage cover by Granovskii mark 'a moment of synthesis and a culminating point in his formal experiments' (Isselbacher, p.37). Number 372 of 500 copies on Rubel paper; this one without the printed leaflet sometimes found laid-into some copies. Isselbacher, Iliazd and the Illustrated Book, p.37; Johnson and Stein, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 37 ('masterpiece of the Russian poetic avant-garde'); MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book 458, 459; Stein, Libri cubisti 30.