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Russian Literature & Art
7:00 AM PT - Oct 29th, 2008

 

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Bloomsbury Auctions

 

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New York, NY 10036-1902
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Lot 64A save

KOROVIN, Konstantin Alekseevich (1861-1939). Shaly

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KOROVIN, Konstantin Alekseevich (1861-1939). Shalyapin [Chaliapin].
Paris: "Vozrozhdenie," 1939. 214 pp. 8vo (185 140 mm). Burgundy cloth over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers. Condition: joints neatly repaired, unobtrusive rubber stamps to title page and blank. Provenance: Boris Pavlovich Voinarskii as printed on the frontispiece. presentation copy inscribed in ink by the author on the title page and dated february 10, 1939. This memoir of the great opera singer draws on the author's close friendship with Chaliapin. Korovin painted his portrait in 1915 and it remains one of the artist's best known works.

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