Oskar Eduarovich WOLZENBURG (1886-1971) Lecture dedicated to - Lot 186

Oskar Eduarovich WOLZENBURG (1886-1971) Lecture dedicated to the memory of Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev. Copy no. 29/144, published by the Leningrad Society of Bibliophiles (Leningr. Ob-vo Bibliophilov, L.O.B. on the cover), 1927. 30 pages, 3 illustrations, including a silhouette portrait of the artist. Format in-12°. Very good condition. B.M. Kustodiev was a painter, engraver and illustrator. F.F. Nothafft has organized an exhibition of the books he illustrated, and of the watercolors illustrating Nikolai Nekrassov's poems. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of Fyodor Fyodorovich Nothafft, art lover and collector, researcher at the Hermitage and founder of the Aquilon publishing house. Paula Nothafft was made famous by painter B.M. Kustodiev's portrait of her; in 1923, she left Soviet Russia for Switzerland with her son Andrei, who would later become a major industrialist.