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Chorny, Sasha - Boris Grigoriev
THE PUBLISHER'S FAIR COPY OF CHORNY'S CHILDREN'S ISLAND [DETSKY OSTROV], WITH GRIGORIEV'S ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FOR THE ILLUSTRATIONS.  N.P. [BERLIN?], CA. 1920-22 
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LOT SOLD. 15,000 USD (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
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Chorny, Sasha - Boris Grigoriev
THE PUBLISHER'S FAIR COPY OF CHORNY'S CHILDREN'S ISLAND [DETSKY OSTROV], WITH GRIGORIEV'S ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FOR THE ILLUSTRATIONS.  N.P. [BERLIN?], CA. 1920-22 
Estimate
15,000 — 20,000
LOT SOLD. 15,000 USD (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
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Chorny, Sasha - Boris Grigoriev
THE PUBLISHER'S FAIR COPY OF CHORNY'S CHILDREN'S ISLAND [DETSKY OSTROV], WITH GRIGORIEV'S ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FOR THE ILLUSTRATIONS.  N.P. [BERLIN?], CA. 1920-22 
172 pages (size varies, sheets approximately 11 x 8 1/2 in.; 279 x 216 mm), comprising autograph fair copy of Chrony's poems in black and blue ink, 117 pages with a few manuscript corrections, and 22 full-page and 14 other (half-page and smaller) original drawings (ink) by Grigoriev; minor wear and fraying at the right edges of a few leaves.  Bound up in half cloth, patterned boards, with the lithographed cover illustration of the first edition affixed to the front cover; worn at edges, lithograph with some dampstaining and browning.
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With 36 original ink drawings by Boris Grigoriev.

Grigoriev was a brilliant social cartoonist who also exhibited with Mir Iskusstva [The World of Art]. Some of his most delightful pictures appear in the famous children's book Detskii ostrov. "Line encloses all the weight of form within its angles and dispenses with all the immaterial," he explained. "Line is the creator's swiftest and most immediate method of expression." 

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