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GRIGOR’EV, Boris (1886-1939). Raseya [Russia]. Potsdam: Müller – Berlin: S. Efron, 1922.
Presentation copy of the first edition to be published outside Russia (first edition 1918): a landmark edition for an author and artist who, by the 1920s, was perhaps the most feted of Russian émigré art connoisseurs in Europe and the USA, celebrated as the bard of Russia. His depictions of peasants in the Raseya series were seen as faithful representations of rural Russia and windows into the ‘soul’ of Slavonic peoples. The book is warmly inscribed by the author in 1934 for the collector and diplomat Vladimir Bashkirov, who was instrumental in introducing Grigor’ev to the American public: ‘I was just angry then, in Paris in 1913. Now I am happier. I have found a friend in you, my dear Vladimir’ (translated from the frontispiece). A further, rather more cryptic paragraph inscribed on the title. Hellyer 696; see MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book 180.
Quarto (255x200 mm). With 44 plates and many illustrations, all by Grigoriev (stain to the outer edge, very occasional staining or spotting in the margins, one quire detached.) Publisher's original pictorial cloth, pictorial dust-jacket (spine ends worn, edges lightly rubbed, a few stains to sides; dust-jacket repaired with new sympathetic paper spine and flaps). Provenance: Boris Grigor’ev (presentation inscription to:) - Vladimir Bashkirov (collector and diplomat, inscriptions to frontispiece and title).
Presentation copy of the first edition to be published outside Russia (first edition 1918): a landmark edition for an author and artist who, by the 1920s, was perhaps the most feted of Russian émigré art connoisseurs in Europe and the USA, celebrated as the bard of Russia. His depictions of peasants in the Raseya series were seen as faithful representations of rural Russia and windows into the ‘soul’ of Slavonic peoples. The book is warmly inscribed by the author in 1934 for the collector and diplomat Vladimir Bashkirov, who was instrumental in introducing Grigor’ev to the American public: ‘I was just angry then, in Paris in 1913. Now I am happier. I have found a friend in you, my dear Vladimir’ (translated from the frontispiece). A further, rather more cryptic paragraph inscribed on the title. Hellyer 696; see MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book 180.
Quarto (255x200 mm). With 44 plates and many illustrations, all by Grigoriev (stain to the outer edge, very occasional staining or spotting in the margins, one quire detached.) Publisher's original pictorial cloth, pictorial dust-jacket (spine ends worn, edges lightly rubbed, a few stains to sides; dust-jacket repaired with new sympathetic paper spine and flaps). Provenance: Boris Grigor’ev (presentation inscription to:) - Vladimir Bashkirov (collector and diplomat, inscriptions to frontispiece and title).
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