Books and Manuscripts · Lot 152
Mayakovsky, V. Pro Eto.
Moscow/ Petrograd, Gos. Izd., 1923, 1st ed., 43p., 8 photomontage plates and orig. (front)wr. des. by A. RODCHENKO.
- Lot
- 152
- Auction
- Auction 81, 18-22 Nov 2024
- Estimate
- €1,500 – €2,500
- Result
- €2,200
- Photos
- 2 photos
Condition
Frontwrapper neatly restored along margins (tiny portions lacking at upper edge) and reattached; backwr. and spine renewed; bookplate on verso frontwr.
Notes
Rowell/ Wye 505 and ills. p.210f; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.85; Khan-Magomedov p.118f: "In 1923 Mayakovsky's poem Pro Eto was published, with illustrations by Rodchenko which are today regarded as a seminal work of photomontage. In fact, it could be claimed that the painter was the co-author of this work, since he had not limited himself to illustrating the poem in order to render its meaning clearer, but had created a series of artistic compositions, capable of conjuring up profound associations of meaning."