EXTER (Alexandra). COLMONT (Marie). - Lot 169

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EXTER (Alexandra). COLMONT (Marie). - Lot 169
EXTER (Alexandra). COLMONT (Marie). Panorama of the mountain. Drawings by Alexandra Exter. Text by Marie Colmont. Albums du Père Castor. Flammarion. [Paris. 1938.] Folding panorama (24 x 25 cm), double sided, of 10 color plates and (8) pp. of text and illustrations in shades of gray: strong cardboard covers illustrated in color. The rarest of the Panoramas, in first edition, drawn by Alexandra Alexandrovna Exter, born Grigorovitch (1882-1949). Trained at the Fine Arts School in Kiev, she continued her training at the Academy of the Grande Chaumière. In 1914, she exhibited in Kiev with the Futurists and, in 1915 in Moscow, with the Cubo-Futurists. In 1917 in Odessa, she opened an art workshop for children. She designed costumes and sets for the theater and taught at the Vkhoutemas. Represented in all the major exhibitions of her time, she won a gold medal at the Exposition des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes de Paris in 1925. Originality of the presentation, print in ten colors for the learned chromatism, the rigor of the composition and the research of the dynamism which inspired all the work of Exter. Very well preserved, minimal foxing on one text panel. Joint of the same : - Panorama of the coast. Albums du Père Castor. Flammarion. [Paris. 1938]. Set of two panoramas by Alexandra Exter.
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