EXTER, Alexandra -- TUGENDKHOL'D, Iakov. Aleksandra Ekster kak Zhivopisets i Khudozhnik Stseny. [Alexandra Exter as an Artist and a Theatre Designer.] Berlin: Zaria, 1922. 8° (220 x 160mm). 43 plates, four of these in colour and mounted as issued. Original grey card wrappers printed in red and black (light wear, light soiling).
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EXTER, Alexandra -- TUGENDKHOL'D, Iakov. Aleksandra Ekster kak Zhivopisets i Khudozhnik Stseny. [Alexandra Exter as an Artist and a Theatre Designer.] Berlin: Zaria, 1922. 8° (220 x 160mm). 43 plates, four of these in colour and mounted as issued. Original grey card wrappers printed in red and black (light wear, light soiling).

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EXTER, Alexandra -- TUGENDKHOL'D, Iakov. Aleksandra Ekster kak Zhivopisets i Khudozhnik Stseny. [Alexandra Exter as an Artist and a Theatre Designer.] Berlin: Zaria, 1922. 8° (220 x 160mm). 43 plates, four of these in colour and mounted as issued. Original grey card wrappers printed in red and black (light wear, light soiling).

FIRST EDITION. This remained the only and definitive monograph on Exter for fifty years, until the publication of Nakov's exhibition catalogue for the Galerie Jean Chauvelin in 1972. Rare: ABPC records no copy selling at auction in over 30 years. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 384.