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RYABUSHINSKII, Nikolai and Georgy Ivanovich CHULK

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Moscow: [A. I. Mamontov; I. I. Kushnerev & Co.], January 1906 - November/December 1909. 34 issues (all published, including a number of double ot triple number issues) bound in 8 volumes, 4to (293 x 216 mm). Large square 4to (4 vols.: 340 x 310mm.), or 4to (2 vols: 300 x 218 mm.; 2 vols.: 293 x 217 mm). Numerous plates and illustrations, some colored. Contemporary gray cloth, top edges stained red (4 vols), dark green half morocco (2 vols.) or dark red half morocco (2 vols). Condition: cloth spines somewhat faded and lightly soiled, the red-staining to edges occasionally over-enthusiastic; the dark green morocco spines darkened to brown. a rare complete run of this opulent art, literary and critical journal of the silver age. With contributions by Konstantin Balmont, Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Valerii Briusov, Kornei Chukovsky, Maurice Denis, Zaida Gippius, Vladisov Khodasevich, Mikhail Kuzmin, Vsevolod Meierkhold, Aleksei Remizov, Nicholas Roerich, Fedor Sologub and others. Illustrations by Léon Bakst, Alexandre Benois, Ivan Bilibin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Nicolai Feofilaktov, Evgenii Lansere, Vasili Masiutin, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Somov, Sergei Sudeikin, Mikhail Vrubel, Boris Zvorikin and others. Beginning in April 1908 in Moscow, Zolotoe runo, like Mir isskustva before, sponsored art exhibitions and introduced not only the new Russian artists but also Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse and other Western masters to the Russian public. June-September 1906 has a survey of Russian icons with decorations by Bilibin; the topic of the January 1907 issue is the Devil; No. 1, 1909 is devoted to Paul Gauguin and No. 6, 1909 to Henri Matisse. Drawing on the talents of many members of Mir Isskustva [The World Art], Zolotoe runo is arguably one of the most beautiful periodicals ever published. An exceedingly rare complete run. (8)

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