Graphic art in the USSR, 1917-X-1927 Printed by Petchatniy D - Lot 187

Graphic art in the USSR, 1917-X-1927 Printed by Petchatniy Dvor , typography of the State Publishing House. Contains : - a collection of articles by V.V. Voynov, I.D. Galationov, E.F. Gollerbach, V.K. Okhotchinskiy, M.I. Roslavlev, V.G. Samoylov, - the exhibition in the halls of the Academy of Arts, catalog of the Leningrad Academy of Arts. - numerous illustrations, including by G. Vereïski. Cover by M. Kirnarskiy, book ornamentations by S. Widber. Format in-12°, 300 pages, including 11 advertisements, 18 with illustrations, and 2 illustration leaves. Small tears, slight moisture stain on upper right corner. 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.