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Recollections: Modern and Contemporary Art's Books and Documents

Thursday 16 July 2020, 04:30 PM • Rome

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Libro (Futurismo russo) - Guro (Genricovna, Elena )

(Pietroburgo 1877 - Usikirko 1913)

Osennij son. P’esa v vhetyrekh kartinakh (Autumn dream. A comedy in four acts), St. Petersburg, N. I. Butkovskaia, 1912; 19x13 cm., Paperback, pp. 57- [5].

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Illustrated cover with an abstract green decoration, 5 plates out of text, two of which in black and white with portraits drawn by Guro's son and three in color applied on sugar paper-colored cardboard. The book contains two musical pages with the suite for violin and piano "Osenni Son", composed by her husband Mikhail Matyushin. Print run of 500 copies. Small purple ink spot on the back cover.

Literature

Bibliography: Vladimir Markov, History of Russian Futurism, Turin, Einaudi, 1968: pp. 17-18 and 388; Margit Rowell - Deborah Wye, "The russian avant-garde book 1910 - 1934", New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2002: n. 8 p. 250

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