Russkoe Iskusstvo: Ocherki o Zhizni i Tvorchestve Khudozhnikov (Russian Art: Essays on Life and Creativity of the Artist)
Moskva: Gos. Izd. Iskusstvo, 1954. Hardcover. Midnight blue cloth over boards; gilt spine decoration and cover/spine lettering. 743 pp. with bw illus. throughout. Small errata sheet attached at back. VG, clean, tight interior but spine binding is pulling away from text block, making the covers wobble a bit. Item #144785
Text entirely in Russian. With an introduction by Leonov, followed by chapters on 40 different artists, their lives and their work, by various different authors. Illustrations include images of the artists and examples of some of their paintings. Artists include three Ivanovs, Stupin, Lebedev, Soroka, Alekseev, Gagarin, Bruni, Pimenov, Galaktionov, Egorov, Slavyanskiy, and several others. With a list of illustrations.
Price: $40.00