Antique Art and Weaponry Sale, May 30, 2020
Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 9:00 PM UTC
Lot 270:
Rare Russian magazine " Zhar Ptistsa" ( "Firebird" ) # 7. "Zhar Ptistsa was extremely influential in its day, containing contributions from such luminaries such as Somov, Benois, Grigoriev, Bakst, Goncharova, Bilibin, Shukhaev, and all the the members of the Mir Iskusstva, or "World of Art Group". As Fekula noted, Zhar Ptitsa is ‘perhaps the most famous of post-revolutionary art journals, whose contributors threw new light on the development of Russian art at the beginning of the twentieth century.’ Likewise, Vengerov stated about the journal, ‘Even separate issues of the magazine, let alone complete sets of its issues, are a great bibliographic rarity.Magazine is 12 1/2" x 9 3/4".
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