CHASNICK, ILYA GRIGOREVICH, illustrator. 1. IZO rabochei molodezhi Leningrada. [The Art of Leningrad's Working Youth.] Moscow: Izdatelstvo Gosudarstvennoi Tretyakovskoi Galerei, 1929.
CHASNICK, ILYA GRIGOREVICH, illustrator.
1. IZO rabochei molodezhi Leningrada. [The Art of Leningrad's Working Youth.] Moscow: Izdatelstvo Gosudarstvennoi Tretyakovskoi Galerei, 1929. 18mo (160 x 133 mm). 72 pp. Illustrated with 10 photogravures. Two-color Suprematist wrappers attributed to I. Chasnik. Some wear to wrappers.
Catalog of the Art Exhibition of the Leningrad IZORA M that displayed work by new artists. Chashnik, one of Malevich's students, produced dynamic Suprematist compositions (notably for porcelain) and helped found the UNOVIS school.
2. MATS, I. Leningradskii IZORAM. Moscow and Leningrad: OGIZ-IZOGIZ, 1932. Illustrated with photographs. 8vo. 42 pp. Original two-color photomontage wrappers designed by A. Glukhov. Wrappers rubbed.
FIRST EDITION. Another volume on the centralized visual art organization for Communist youth formed during the first Five-Year Plan to produce propaganda for the state.
Estimate:
US$ 2,500 - 3,500
£1,700 - 2,300
€1,900 - 2,700

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