L'Architecture sovietique, Sovetskai︠a︡ arkhitektura (Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ (Soviet Union). Sekt︠s︡ii︠a︡ sot︠s︡rasseleni︠a︡ i zhilishchno-bytogo stroitelʹstvo), and Sowjetische Architektur
Description:
"Organ Sekt︠s︡ii sot︠s︡rasselenii︠a︡ i zhilishchno-bytogo stroitelʹstva instituta ėkonomiki komakademii, sektora nauki narkomprosa i T︠S︡K soi︠u︡za rabochikh promyshlennogo i zhilishchno-kommunalʹnogo stroitelʹstva.", Began publication with v.1, 1934; ceased with v.4, 1937. Cf. Union list of serials., Bimonthly, Inscriptions, stamps, and ms. notes of Karel Teige., and Text in Russian; table of contents and captions also in German and French.
Publisher:
Gos. tekhniko-teoreticheskoe izd-vo,
Subject (Name):
Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ (Soviet Union). Sekt︠s︡ii︠a︡ sot︠s︡rasselenii︠a︡ i zhilishchno-bytogo stroitelʹstvo., Teige, Karel,--1900-1951--Autograph., Teige, Karel,--1900-1951--Ms. notes., and Teige, Karel,--1900-1951--Stamp.
Subject (Topic):
Architecture--Periodicals. and Architecture--Soviet Union--Periodicals.
"300 copies of this book have been printed at the Bird & Bull Press on Green's hand made B & B paper. The text was composed in Van Dijck types by Mackenzie-Harris Corp. and the binding was done by E.G. Parrot. The plates and negatives were made by The Beck Engraving Co., and the marbled samples and cover papers were made by Richard J. Wolfe ...."--Page [81]., No. 31. Accompanied by: Prospectus (1 leaf)., and Translation of: Die Kunst des Marmorierens, oder, Die Herstellung von Buchbinder-Buntpapieren mit Wasserfarben auf schleimhaltigem Grund.
Publisher:
Bird & Bull Press,
Subject (Name):
Bird & Bull Press, publisher, Parrot, Gray, bookbinder., and Wolfe, Richard J., ill.
The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
Description:
Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.
Subject (Name):
Mondriaan, Carel, 1880-1956 and Mondriaan, Louis Cornelis, 1877-1943