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"MISS" [Anna Vladimirovna Remizova]. Kupidonovy p

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St. Petersburg: M. G. Kornfeld, 1913. 82pp. Oblong folio (260 x 255 mm). Original half cloth over decorated boards with cover label, decorated endpapers. Condition: some staining and spotting to boards, hinges tender, some minor repairs. elegant album of pictures in the manner of aubrey beardsley and konstantin somov. Remizova (née Vasileva) was the sister of the famous cartoonist "Re-Mi" (Nikolai Vladimirovich Remizov, 1887-1975). The two worked for Sverchok [Cricket] until 1908; afterwards she was a regular contributor to the famous humor magazine Satirikon. She was also a stage designer. Beardsley had an enormous impact on the graphic artists of the Silver Age including Somov and "Miss." These delicate line drawings appeared in Russian periodicals before being collected in this book. This copy includes numerous clippings of other pictures by this artist taken from magazines and newspapers as late as 1917 and tipped in the blank areas.

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