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[BENOIS, Alexandre (Aleksanr Nikolaevich Benua) (1

[BENOIS, Alexandre (Aleksanr Nikolaevich Benua) (1870-1960), illustrator] - A.S. PUSHKIN. Mednyi vsadnik [The Bronze Horseman].

St. Petersburg: Komitet Populyarizaschi Khudozhestvennykh Izdanii pri Rossiiskoi Akademii Isirii Materialnoi Kultury, 1923. 4to (340 x 270 mm). Edited and afterward by P. E. Scheolev. Photolithographs in color and black and white by A N Benois. Original decorated magenta wrappers designed by A. N. Benois. Condition: wrappers rebacked and partially faded, edges frayed and some staining. Provenance: Anna Aleksandrovna Cherkesova, the artist's daughter. presentation copy from the artist to his daughter. One of 1,000 copies with Cherkesova's name printed below the colophon on the verso of the half-title page. This illustrated version of the Pushkin's famous poem (first published in 1903) is considered by many to be Benois' masterpiece as a book illustrator. Ivan Federov with Golike and Wilborg was seeing this deluxe edition through the press in 1917 when the Revolution intervened and the book was not issued until six years later. Benois left Russia for good in 1926. [Together with 2 other works by Benois:] Der Reiter aus Erz. Munich: Orchis, 1922. Translated into German by Johannes von Guenther. 8vo (240 x 160 mm). Original decorated tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers discolored with foxing on inside. German edition of this famous work. Zhizn khudoxhnika [Life of a Painter]. New York: [Chekhov Publishing House], 1955. 2 vols. 8vo (213 x 140 mm). Original gray wrappers. Condition: ex-library copies. The famous artist's reminiscences of the Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] group, the Ballets Russes and after. (3).(3)