Item #3167 Programma Mizhdunarodnogo konkursa na proekt pamyatnika T. G. Shevchenko v g. Kharkove. [The Program of the International Competition for the Design of the Monument to Taras Shevchenko in Kharkiv]. Adolf Strakhov.
Programma Mizhdunarodnogo konkursa na proekt pamyatnika T. G. Shevchenko v g. Kharkove. [The Program of the International Competition for the Design of the Monument to Taras Shevchenko in Kharkiv].
Programma Mizhdunarodnogo konkursa na proekt pamyatnika T. G. Shevchenko v g. Kharkove. [The Program of the International Competition for the Design of the Monument to Taras Shevchenko in Kharkiv].
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Programma Mizhdunarodnogo konkursa na proekt pamyatnika T. G. Shevchenko v g. Kharkove. [The Program of the International Competition for the Design of the Monument to Taras Shevchenko in Kharkiv].

Kharkiv: Proletaryi, 1930. Photogravure plates and fold-out map, Text in Ukrainian, Russian, German and French. Publisher's two-color. First edition. In original paper. MoMA 908. 4, pp. 101, [2], plates 15. Rubbing and soiling of the cover,very good condition inside.

Strakhov was one of the founders of the Soviet Social Realism art movement. But before he turned to the dark side, he produced this remarkable exercise in Constructivist book design. Its simplicity, grace and symmetry are worthy of El Lissitzky.

Price: €2,000.00

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