Samarkandiya [Samarkand]. Petrograd: Akvilon, 1923. 4to. 55 pp. Original decorated wrappers. Wrappers soiled; bookstore name rubberstamped on back free endpaper. FIRST EDITION, one of 1,000 copies. K. S. Petrov-Vodkin was a major modern Russian painter and the founder of Modern Church Modernism. His haunting paintings and drawings fused many influences as diverse as traditional Russian Icon painting and Cubism. Samarkandiya, the story of a local boy, chronicles the four months in the summer of 1921 that Petrov-Vodkin spent in "the land of turquoise revelations." The book is filled with elegant on-the-spot sketches. The Russian Avant-Garde Book 496.
Samarkandiya [Samarkand]. Petrograd: Akvilon, 1923. 4to. 55 pp. Original decorated wrappers. Wrappers soiled; bookstore name rubberstamped on back free endpaper. FIRST EDITION, one of 1,000 copies. K. S. Petrov-Vodkin was a major modern Russian painter and the founder of Modern Church Modernism. His haunting paintings and drawings fused many influences as diverse as traditional Russian Icon painting and Cubism. Samarkandiya, the story of a local boy, chronicles the four months in the summer of 1921 that Petrov-Vodkin spent in "the land of turquoise revelations." The book is filled with elegant on-the-spot sketches. The Russian Avant-Garde Book 496.
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