20. BENOIS, Alexandre [Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benua] (1870-1960). Russkaya shkola zhivopisi [The Russian School of Painting]. St. Petersburg: Golike and Vilborg, 1904. 96 pp. Large folio (410 x 330 mm). 101 tipped-in color plates and photogravures of Russian art. 10 parts unbound (as issued) within original decorated white portfolio designed by A. Benois with a front wrapper of vol. I and complete wrapper for vol. II designed by Evgenii Evgenievich Lansere. Condition: tears to margins, some toning; wrappers with repairs to margins, portfolio somewhat soiled.
signed by the author in ink on the title page, explaining that he began the project in 1903 but did not complete it until 1905. A magnificently produced survey of Russian art by the great Silver Age painter. Msistlav Valeryanov Dubuzhinsky provided the elegant title page design. Alfred A. Knopf published an English translation by Abraham Yarmolinsky in 1916 but not in so sumptuous a format.
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