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MAKOVSKII, Sergei Konstantinovich (1877-1962) and

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Petrograd: S.K. Makovskii, October 1909-1917. 23 vols. Printed by R. Golike & A. Vilborg, St. Petersburg. Various sizes. Rebound in red leatherette, many with the original wrappers bound in. Condition: first three volumes with overall light toning, occasional light soiling and old dampstaining, the later volumes generally fine and clean internally. complete run of the highly influential art journal. With contributions by Anna Akmatova, Inokentii Annenskii, Konstantin Balmont, Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Benois, Aleksandr Blok, Valerii Briusov, Abram Efros, Nikolai Gumilev, Vyachelov Ivanov, Wassily Kandinsky, Mikhail Kuzmin, Osip Mandelshtam, Vladimir Narbut, Nikolai Radlov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Fedor Sologub, Vladimir Solovev, Aleksei Tolstoi and others. Graphics by Léon Bakst, A. Benois, Sergei Chekhonin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Boris Kustodiev, Evgenii Lansere, Dmitrii Mitrokhin, Georgii Narbut, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Nikolai Punin, Nicholas Roerich, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Somov, Sergei Sudeikin, Mikhail Vrubel and others. When the magazine Mir iskusstva [World of Art] folded in 1904, Alexandre Benois filled the void with this more scholarly and less avant-garde art journal. Like its predecessor, it contained articles on music and theater as well as on the visual arts. (23)

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