Dlia golosa [For the Voice]
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MICA: THE COLLECTION OF MICA ERTEGUN
Dlia golosa [For the Voice]

Vladimir Mayakovsky and El Lissitsky, 1923.

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Dlia golosa [For the Voice]
Vladimir Mayakovsky and El Lissitsky, 1923.
MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir (1893-1930) AND EL LISSITZKY (1890–1941). Dlia golosa [For the Voice]. Moscow and Berlin: Lutze & Vogt for the State Publishing House, 1923.

First edition of one of the most important Constructivist collaborations, and one of Lissitzky's most famous designs. Quintessential of Lissitzky’s inventiveness and concentration on functionality, the book presents Mayakovsky’s poems with red and black letters and abstract forms, with stylized thumb tabs for ease of referencing each poem, together with the original letterpress book cover of Khorosho! Oktiabr'skaia poema (Good! An October Poem), 1927

Octavo. Lithographed illustrations printed in black and red, leaves with fore-edges cut to form index tabs.
8 x 11 ½ in. (20.3 x 29.2 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., London, 3 November 1978, lot 415.

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