PUNI, IVAN. 1894-1956.
Sovremennaya zhivopis. [Contemporary Art.] Berlin: L.D. Frenkel, [1923].
4to. 36 pp. 24 plates. Original brown wrappers with a label after a painting by I. Puni. Small corner chip to cover label, light wear to wrappers, text block detached.
FIRST EDITION. Puni was an important Russian Suprematist artist who taught in Vitebsk under Marc Chagall. Alfred Barr of the Museum of Modern Art called Puni "the greatest critic of modern art."
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