{"title":"Natalia Goncharova","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse works by Natalia Goncharova from Shapero Rare Books.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"goncharova-bezotvetnoe-1913-114089","title":"Bezotvetnoe [Unanswered].","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eA highly uncommon and obscure book designed by Goncharova. Not found in WorldCat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBezotvetnoe [Unanswered] was the first and only book to be published by Arkady Gurev, a poet and singer of the Russian Silver Age. Not much is known about Gurev's fate after the Revolution but he was a close friend of Pasternak and as this work demonstrates he mixed in Moscow's artistic circles of the time. Pasternak wrote in Liudi i Polozheniia that he had a round head like an onion and behaved incredibly eccentrically, pretending that he couldn't move his heel off the pavement as the devil had pinned him down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGoncharova's cover design in black and white is similar in style to her illustrations for Churilin's poetry which appeared a year earlier. The inscription on the title page reads 'Oblozhka Natalii Goncharovoi. Knigoizdatel'stvo \"Osen'\" | Moskva MCMXIII' and dated in the corner. There are also a couple of corrections in the text and although we don't know who the owner was it may have well been someone connected to the work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition, 8vo (22.7 x 16 cm); contemporary ink inscription to title-page, a few corrections in pencil and ink; original wrappers designed by Goncharova, faint spotting and minor repairs to wrappers, spine strengthened, small contemporary bookseller's stamp to lower wrapper, a very good copy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"GONCHAROVA, Natalia; GUR'EV, Arkadii.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54805736030583,"sku":"114089","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/114089_b24ff7da-c0f8-4df2-a4d7-4ccf095110a7.jpg?v=1780914604"},{"product_id":"goncharova-parnakh-samum-1919-114696","title":"Samum.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eThe first edition of Valentin Parnakh's collection of poems with striking lithographs by Goncharova inspired by her travels to Spain. Parnakh left war-torn Russia and moved to Paris in 1916 where he befriended Goncharova and Larionov. The trio had a fruitful artistic relationship, also working together on Slovodvig (1920) and L'Art décoratif théâtral moderne (1919). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParnakh had studied music in Russia under Mikhail Gnessin (as well as theatre under Meyerhold) and fell in love with jazz when he heard it for the first time in Paris. He decided to move back to the Soviet Union and formed the first jazz band or 'Eccentic Orchestra' as he called it, using tam-tams, saxophones and trumpet sordinos he'd brought with him from France. The Comintern were fans of his music, inviting his band to play at the Agriculture Expo and were very proud that jazz was being performed at state functions, something which would never happen in the West. Meyerhold also appointed him director of music and choreography at his theatre troupe. Parnakh's poetry was not so popular with the censor, however, and he left for Paris in 1925, only to return to the Soviet Union yet again in WWII where he was evacuated to Chistopol with Tsvetaeva.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition, 8vo (23 x 16 cm); 43pp., 3 plates after Goncharova, 2 of which are printed in colour; original printed wrappers, spine strengthened, some spotting to covers but otherwise a very good copy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"GONCHAROVA, Natalia; PARNAKH, Valentin.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54942376395127,"sku":"114696","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/114696_b46b21ce-798e-4ab9-91a6-ff8b697cc1ff.jpg?v=1780914613"},{"product_id":"goncharova-grand-bal-de-nuit-117682","title":"Grand Bal de Nuit.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eThe scarce and impressive large-scale poster designed by Goncharova. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNatalia Goncharova designed this poster for the Grand Bal des Artistes held at the Salle Bullier, Paris, on February 23, 1923. Her poster reveals the influence of Cubism in its fragmented spatial composition against a flat space with hard-edge silhouettes suggestive of figures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe emigrant Russian artistic community in Montparnasse became very active in the years before World War I and the large ball they hosted every year in order to raise money for their association was one of the highlights of the Parisian avant-garde season.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis poster appears in two variants: with and without the text which wraps itself around the design.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLithograph in colours on thin wove poster paper laid onto board, fold-marks and skilful repairs, trimmed at the bottom (110 x 76 cm).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"GONCHAROVA, Natalia.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55599582282103,"sku":"117682","price":8750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/117682_4685bbb9-28c1-401b-9c44-a10943603574.jpg?v=1781110501"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/collections\/Natalia_Goncharova.png?v=1777563586","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/collections\/natalia-goncharova.oembed","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}