Lot 1046: SHEVCHENKO, ALEKSANDR VASILEVICH. 1883-1948.- Printsipy kubizma i drugikh sovremennykh techenii v zhivopisi vsekh vremen i narodov [Principles of Cubism and Other Modern Trends in Painting of All Ages and Peoples]. Moscow: Privately published by A.

Printsipy kubizma i drugikh sovremennykh techenii v zhivopisi vsekh vremen i narodov [Principles of Cubism and Other Modern Trends in Painting of All Ages and Peoples]. Moscow: Privately published by A. Shevchenko, 1913. 8vo. 24 pp. With 9 lithographs printed in sepia on rectos only by Mikhail Larionov, Natalya Goncharova, A. Shevchenko (2), Viktor Bart (2), Illarion Skuie (2) and an anonymous child artist. Original lithographed wrappers designed by A. Shevchenko. Backstrip replaced slightly affecting illustration, title-page repaired along edges, small hole through several pages, staple rust and other soiling. Rare early study of Cubism with lithographs by important Russian adherents to the movement. The text was reproduced planographically from the author's typescript (rather than typeset) in an unspecified edition. A. Shevchenko was an influential modern Russian painter, teacher and theorist. He was included in the "Jack of Diamonds" and "Donkey's Tail" exhibitions with Larionov, Goncharova and innovative painters. The name "Neo-Primitivizm" came from his 1913 study of the Russian Avant-Garde where he defined it as a new form of art that blended Cézanne, Cubism and Futurism with traditional Russian folk art like the icon and the lubok (popular picture sheet). Chagall, Lissitzky, Burliuk, Larionov and Goncharova were among the movement's greatest proponents. Shevchenko was denounced as a "Formalist" under Stalin and his 1933 anniversary exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts was abruptly closed without explanation only ten days after it opened.