rare Russian avant-garde children's book
Dutch issue
Dieren in den Winter
(Animals in Winter)
Nikolai Nikolaevich Kupreianov (Kupreyanov, Koeprejanow)
Николай Николаевич Купрея́нов (1894-1933)
(illustrations)
Aleksandr Afanasev (Afanashev, Afanas'ev, Afanasjew)
Александр Афанасьев
(text)
+
Het Vroolijke onweer(The Joyful Thunderstorm)
O. Gurian (Goerjan)
(text)
Pokrovsky (Pokrowski)
(ills.)
+De Gouden Blaren(The Golden Leaves)
Wyschnewetsky & Fradkin
(illustrations)
Engel
(text)
Russische Prentenboeken
eerste serie
"De Baanbreker" / Servire, The Hague
[1929]
[ltd. ed.: 4,000 copies]
translation: Ljoeba Dworson and Eliza Hess-Binger
19 x 22.4 cm.
text in Dutch
this is a rare book
it usually costs $400
The Dutch series of 'Russische Prentenboeken' was initiated directly after the exhibition of these children's books at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1929.
The Dutch issues were the first to appear outside the USSR!
(This book only pops up only once every several years:
due to that it is assumed that of this hardcover luxury edition not more than 1,000 copies were printed)
constructivist constructivism experimentalCf.:
Lemmens, Stommels, 2009: Russian Artists and the Children's Book, 1890-1992, p.117(ill.), 495;
Saskia de Bodt: Prentenboeken, ideologie en illustratie, 1890-1950;
www .IISG .nl /collections/sovietchildren/2091-22 php
etc.
The book is in good condition,
the cover is browned, as usual