Tugendhold Jacques (2 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Illustrated with three tipped-in color plates and 40 black and white plates. Octavo. Printed wrappers over stapled textblock. Text in French. Wrappers neatly reattached with loss at the corners and spine ends, cover and foredges of first several leves with a bit of staining, first couple of leaves with corner creases and short tears, one color plate with two tears, neatly reattached, sound but good only. The black and white reproductions are fine.

[Berlin]: Saria (Zaria), 1922. Octavo (21.5 × 15.5 cm). Original printed gray wrappers; 31, [1] pp. With thirty-nine plates and four tipped-in plates, of which three in color. Front wrapper with attractive, unattributed lettering in black and red. A small closed tear to bottom of spine; spine sun-tanned; else an unusually well-preserved copy. French translation of th? first monograph to document the creative impact of the avant-garde artist Aleksandra A. Ekster (1882-1949), a key representative of Cubist, Suprematist, and Constructivist tendencies, by the Russian art critic Iakov Tugendkhol'd (1882-1928). Originally published in Berlin as Alexandra Ekster kak zhivopisets i khudozhnik stseny (Alexandra Ekster as a painter and stage designer), the book remained the definitive work on Ekster for fifty years, until the 1972 exhibition catalogue by Andrei Nakov for Galerie Jean Chauvelin. An internationally acknowledged designer and painter, Ekster spent her childhood in Kyiv, where she attended Kyiv Art School (1901-1906), traveling to Paris to take classes at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in 1907 and establishing connections with Picasso, Braque, and Gertrude Stein early on. Her idiosyncratic, highly recognizable, colorful and vibrant style left traces in painting, graphic design, set design, costumes, decorations for public festivities, as well as book design. In 1914, she exhibited with Kazimir Malevich and Aleksandr Archipenko, among others, and in 1915 she joined Malevich's group "Supremus." After teaching at VKhUTEMAS in the early 1920s, she emigrated to Paris in 1924. This book showcases a wide range of her work, including graphic design, painting, and work for the theatre. Written in Russian and published in Berlin, the text was translated for her audience in France where she would spend the last 25 years of her life. Much like Ekster, the author of the volume, Iakov Tugendkhold, studied art in Paris at Academie Ranson (1905), returning to Russia after the 1905 Revolution, subsequently publishing books and articles on contemporary French painting. This volume was also translated into English and German. The Russian volume held by Getty (no. 794 in the catalog); MoMA 384. As of March 2025, KVK, OCLC show copies of the French edition at five institutions in North America.