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Title Peterburg: avtolitografii [Saint Petersburg: Autolithographs]. |
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Published, Date Komitet Pop.Khud. Izd., Skt. Peterburg, 1922. |
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Description Landscape folio (31.3 x 41 cm). Half-title, title, [4] pp., table of contents with 2 lithographs, 12 lithograph plates all signed in the plate. Original printed wrappers; inscriptions on the front cover, small repairs. Kept in a modern black folding box. |
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Note Very good and fresh example of this artistic record of the Russian Northern capital at a major turn of its history: just after the Revolution and the year when it officially lost its status as a capital of the new country. One of 400 copies only. Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871-1955) studied in Russia with Ilya Repin and worked in the studio of James McNeill Whistler in Paris. It was while learning watercolor technique with Leon Bakst that she followed him as a member of the "Mir Iskusstva" [World of Art] group. She became a gifted printmaker and is best remembered for her panoramic studies of St. Petersburg as in this famous suite of autolithographs with an introduction by Benois, also a member of Mir Iskusstva. |
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Stock Number 85841 |
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