MALEVICH, Kazimir -- PUNIN, Nikolai. Pervyi Tsikl Lektsii Chitannykh na Kratkoschnykh Kursakh Dlia Uchitelei Risovaniia. [First Series of Lectures, Given at a Short-Term Course for Teachers of Drawing.] St. Petersburg: Narkompros Department of Performing Arts, 1920. 8° (217 x 145mm). (The first four leaves with long tears.) Original illustrated pink wrappers, after Malevich (spine with short tears and small chips, light spotting). Publisher's stamps on last leaf and rear cover.

MALEVICH, Kazimir -- PUNIN, Nikolai. Pervyi Tsikl Lektsii Chitannykh na Kratkoschnykh Kursakh Dlia Uchitelei Risovaniia. [First Series of Lectures, Given at a Short-Term Course for Teachers of Drawing.] St. Petersburg: Narkompros Department of Performing Arts, 1920. 8° (217 x 145mm). (The first four leaves with long tears.) Original illustrated pink wrappers, after Malevich (spine with short tears and small chips, light spotting). Publisher's stamps on last leaf and rear cover.

FIRST EDITION, WITH THE ORIGINAL COVER BY MALEVICH -- one of the few examples of colour lithography by the Suprematist artist, composed while he was at UNOVIS, where Lissitzky was then working on his Proun images. Punin's essay calls for a renewal of Russian art, putting forward a more dynamic avant garde. MoMA, The Russian Avant Garde Book, p.151.