"Seven Deadly Sins"
Newa Verlag Berlin 1923 #40/100 Signed by the Artist in German and Russian 15 etchings each signed by the artist and numbered (2 etchings are missing) 43,5 x 33,5 cm. $7,500 (also available individually - prices are shown below)
I. HOCHMUT - HAUGHTINESS - ГОРДЫНЯ
II. ZORN - ANGER - ГНЕВ
III. TRAGHEIT - LAZINESS - ЛЕНОСТЬ
IV. GEIZ - GREEDINESS - АЛЧНОСТЬ
V. VOLLEREI - GLUTTONY - ОБЖОРСТВО
VI. NEID - ENVY - ЗАВИСТЬ
VII, LUST - LUST - ПОХОТЬ
PUSHKIN "The Golden Cockerel"
Masjutin, Vasili Nikolayevich (Riga 1884 - 1955 Berlin). "The Golden Cockerel". Folder with 15 colored woodcuts 1924 Newa-Verlag. 15 colorful and stylized scenes from fairy tale by Pushkin with signature stamps on each. H. 46, B. 39 cm (sheet size). Provenance: from the early 1950s from the estate of the artist; Auction house Kraupp, Freiburg, 9.12.2012 lot 2053 Literature: MASJUTIN Wassili. Das Illustrationswerk. Text by Klaus Oestmann. Lubeck 1987 #41 p 76; Waltraud Werner, Vasily Masjutin 1884 - 1955, A Russian Artist 1922 - 1955 in Berlin, Berlin, 2003, pp. 59, 60, 102;Oestmann 41 . $5,000.-
AVAILABLE INDIVIDUALLY:
A [lexander] S [ergejewitsch] Pushkin. Ruslan and Ludmilla. A fantastic tale. Translated from Russian by John Guenther. Title drawings and illustrations of Vasily Masjutin. Munich, Orchis 1922. With nine pochoir illustrations and book decorations. Original half vellum binding with colored cover vignette. Copy VI of 100 Roman numbered the special edition on Hader pressure paper. - Signed by the artist in publisher's imprint and numbered. - Colored woodcuts by the artist. $3000.-
"Alt-Petersburg""
Orchis, Munich (1923), folder with 11 original hand-printed woodcuts, loose as printed. Size: about 20.5 x 15.5 cm; numbered copy (no. 56) Bibliography: MASJUTIN Wassili. Das Illustrationswerk. Text by Klaus Oestmann. Lubeck 1987, #37 on p.76 $3000
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS
Folder with 7 (including 6 in red chalk and 1 double-sided) female and 1 male nude drawings on paper. Approximately 1930. 56 x 36 cm. Lose in a half-linen folder with cover plate "W. Masjutin" with his home address (at the time). 2 leaf verso with signature stamp. Sheet size of 40.5 x 30 till 56 x 35 cm $7000
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Poster design for Lufthansa. Brown wash on paper, signed and dated [19]40 low right, bears unreadable comments on the mat. 35x50cm Provenance: Jeschke van Vliet Berlin 13.08.2015 lot 1065 Price on request
Cover for the book "Gravura", original drawing, pen, red and black ink, watercolor on cardboard, 14x23 cm, signed with Cyrillic initials BM as part of draft and signed one more time with full signature in German low right $3000
Portrait signed Masjutyn c 1928 ash-gray stucco, representation of the great French writer Honoré de Balzac (1799 Tours to 1850, Paris) Dimensions 35 x 34 cm. In 1928 Masjutin had prepared 11 woodcuts for "The unknown masterpiece" by Balzac but the book was not published and woodcuts are known to exist only as a stand alone portfolio. Our portrait is probably coincides in time with this unpublished work. Only a few sculptures by Masjutin are known - portrait of Alexander Newsky in stucco executed in 1947, sculptures of the Russian Embassy on Unter den Linden, grave monument of the composer Mikhail Glinka in Tegel. Provenance: Auctionshaus Mehlis 28.02.2015 lot2671
