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Auction archive: Lot number 18

'ILIAZD' [i.e. Il'ia ZDANEVICH] (1894-1975) and Naum GRANOVSKII (b. 1898, artist). Lidantiu faram [ Lidantiu as a Beacon ]. Paris: l'Imprimerie Union for Éditions 41°, 1923.

Auction 02.12.2004
2 Dec 2004
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$5,787 - US$9,645
Price realised:
£3,585
ca. US$6,916
Auction archive: Lot number 18

'ILIAZD' [i.e. Il'ia ZDANEVICH] (1894-1975) and Naum GRANOVSKII (b. 1898, artist). Lidantiu faram [ Lidantiu as a Beacon ]. Paris: l'Imprimerie Union for Éditions 41°, 1923.

Auction 02.12.2004
2 Dec 2004
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$5,787 - US$9,645
Price realised:
£3,585
ca. US$6,916
Beschreibung:

'ILIAZD' [i.e. Il'ia ZDANEVICH] (1894-1975) and Naum GRANOVSKII (b. 1898, artist). Lidantiu faram [ Lidantiu as a Beacon ]. Paris: l'Imprimerie Union for Éditions 41°, 1923. 4° (190 x 141mm). Typography by Iliazd. Loosely-inserted 8-page prospectus for the work with a preface in French by G. Ribemont-Dessaignes. (Staples of preface causing slight rust-marking.) Original grey wrappers with printed design and collage of onlaid gold and silver paper, cork and synthetic material by Granovskii, glassine dustwrapper, unopened (extremities very lightly bumped, some splitting on block, short tears on dustwrapper). FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 530 COPIES, THIS NO. 474 OF 500 COPIES ON PAPIER RUBEL . A FINE, UNOPENED COPY OF ILIAZD'S SCARCE 'MASTERPIECE OF THE RUSSIAN POETIC AVANT-GARDE' (Johnson p.25). Iliazd's Lidantiu faram -- a tribute to the author's friend Mikhail Ledantiu, a Russian avant-garde artist killed in action in 1917 -- is the last and most fully-realised of his five dramatic works (or 'dras') written in 'zaum'; in his French preface to the work, Ribemont-Dessaignes defines 'zaum' as 'un langage d'apparence russe dont les mots et les onomatopées sont tels qu'ils permettent d'être le support du sens de plusieurs mots de sonorités voisines [...] Dans le zaoum, chaque mot comporte donc plus ou moins appuyés, plusieurs sens d'ordre et de plans différents, concrets ou abstraits, particuliers ou généraux' (pp. [2-3]). Iliazd's dramatic typography employs not only cyrillic characters but also typographic ornaments, and is complemented by Granovskii's collage cover; 'in Lidantiu faram Iliazd reached a high point in his development of ludic typography as an integral part of the modern page layout; it was a moment of synthesis and a culminating point in his formal experiments' (A. Isselbacher and F. Le Gris-Bergmann Iliazd and the Illustrated Book (New York: 1987), p. 37). Although the edition was stated to be of 530 copies (comprising 30 on japon impérial and 500 on papier rubel ), each with a cover collage created by hand, it is thought that only a little more than one hundred copies were bound up (since demand for the work was not great), and the remaining sets of the sheets were destroyed -- certainly the work is scarce at auction. Johnson Artists' Books in the Modern Era 37; Paris-Moscou 1900-1930 (Paris: 1979), p. 440, no. 277; Rowell and Wye The Russian Avant-Garde Book 459; Stein Libri cubisti 30.

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
2 Dec 2004
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

'ILIAZD' [i.e. Il'ia ZDANEVICH] (1894-1975) and Naum GRANOVSKII (b. 1898, artist). Lidantiu faram [ Lidantiu as a Beacon ]. Paris: l'Imprimerie Union for Éditions 41°, 1923. 4° (190 x 141mm). Typography by Iliazd. Loosely-inserted 8-page prospectus for the work with a preface in French by G. Ribemont-Dessaignes. (Staples of preface causing slight rust-marking.) Original grey wrappers with printed design and collage of onlaid gold and silver paper, cork and synthetic material by Granovskii, glassine dustwrapper, unopened (extremities very lightly bumped, some splitting on block, short tears on dustwrapper). FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 530 COPIES, THIS NO. 474 OF 500 COPIES ON PAPIER RUBEL . A FINE, UNOPENED COPY OF ILIAZD'S SCARCE 'MASTERPIECE OF THE RUSSIAN POETIC AVANT-GARDE' (Johnson p.25). Iliazd's Lidantiu faram -- a tribute to the author's friend Mikhail Ledantiu, a Russian avant-garde artist killed in action in 1917 -- is the last and most fully-realised of his five dramatic works (or 'dras') written in 'zaum'; in his French preface to the work, Ribemont-Dessaignes defines 'zaum' as 'un langage d'apparence russe dont les mots et les onomatopées sont tels qu'ils permettent d'être le support du sens de plusieurs mots de sonorités voisines [...] Dans le zaoum, chaque mot comporte donc plus ou moins appuyés, plusieurs sens d'ordre et de plans différents, concrets ou abstraits, particuliers ou généraux' (pp. [2-3]). Iliazd's dramatic typography employs not only cyrillic characters but also typographic ornaments, and is complemented by Granovskii's collage cover; 'in Lidantiu faram Iliazd reached a high point in his development of ludic typography as an integral part of the modern page layout; it was a moment of synthesis and a culminating point in his formal experiments' (A. Isselbacher and F. Le Gris-Bergmann Iliazd and the Illustrated Book (New York: 1987), p. 37). Although the edition was stated to be of 530 copies (comprising 30 on japon impérial and 500 on papier rubel ), each with a cover collage created by hand, it is thought that only a little more than one hundred copies were bound up (since demand for the work was not great), and the remaining sets of the sheets were destroyed -- certainly the work is scarce at auction. Johnson Artists' Books in the Modern Era 37; Paris-Moscou 1900-1930 (Paris: 1979), p. 440, no. 277; Rowell and Wye The Russian Avant-Garde Book 459; Stein Libri cubisti 30.

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
2 Dec 2004
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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