RODCHENKO, Alexander -- MAYAKOVSKII, Vladimir. Pro Eto. Ei i Mne . [About this. To her and to me]. Moscow and Petrograd: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1923. 4° (222 x 150mm). Eight plates reproducing photo-montages by Rodchenko. (Light wear.) Original illustrated wrappers by Rodchenko using a portrait of Lili Brik lLacking back cover, supplied loose in facsimile, front cover with short tears and light wear to the extremities, small repair, stitching loose). Provenance : Nico Rost (inscription from the author dated 8 June 1923). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY MAYAKOVSKII TO NICO ROST. Rare. The author Nico Rost (1896-1967) was a notable figure of the Communist movement in the Netherlands. Mayakovskii and Rost met in Germany in 1923 when both travelled to Berlin. Pro Eto remains one of the Russian avant-garde's most successful combinations of text, typography and design. Rodchenko's remarkable montages use his own photographs, and some by Shterenberg, Wasserman, and Kaputshanshkii. Mayakovskii wrote this poem following a brief separation with his great love, Lili Brik. The front cover, illustrated with Brik's portrait, is ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC IMAGES OF RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM. Hellyer 336; The Russian Avant-Garde Book , pp.210-211.
RODCHENKO, Alexander -- MAYAKOVSKII, Vladimir. Pro Eto. Ei i Mne . [About this. To her and to me]. Moscow and Petrograd: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1923. 4° (222 x 150mm). Eight plates reproducing photo-montages by Rodchenko. (Light wear.) Original illustrated wrappers by Rodchenko using a portrait of Lili Brik lLacking back cover, supplied loose in facsimile, front cover with short tears and light wear to the extremities, small repair, stitching loose). Provenance : Nico Rost (inscription from the author dated 8 June 1923). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY MAYAKOVSKII TO NICO ROST. Rare. The author Nico Rost (1896-1967) was a notable figure of the Communist movement in the Netherlands. Mayakovskii and Rost met in Germany in 1923 when both travelled to Berlin. Pro Eto remains one of the Russian avant-garde's most successful combinations of text, typography and design. Rodchenko's remarkable montages use his own photographs, and some by Shterenberg, Wasserman, and Kaputshanshkii. Mayakovskii wrote this poem following a brief separation with his great love, Lili Brik. The front cover, illustrated with Brik's portrait, is ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC IMAGES OF RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM. Hellyer 336; The Russian Avant-Garde Book , pp.210-211.
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