Lot 68
  • 68

# - Goncharova, Natalia.

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description

  • Misticheskie obrazy voiny: 14 litografi [Mystical images of war: fourteen lithographs]. Moscow: V.N. Kashin, 1914
folio (328 x 252mm.), 14 lithographs by Goncharova, loose in original printed wrappers, modern portfolio preserving original pictorial yellow upper wrapper, a few plates with small repairs on verso, yellow pictorial wrapper trimmed

Literature

Hellyer 127; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 73

Condition

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Catalogue Note

In this rare and important portfolio Natalia Goncharova combined innovative and traditional art forms, particularly the Russian icon. She created a series of striking apocalyptic images, visual allusions and allegories to depict the Great War between England, Germany, France and Russia.