Union des artistes russes & François Bernouard | Paris 1924 | 24,5 x 29 cm | in original wrappers
First edition, printed in a very small number of copies on vélin Normandy paper.
The program is illustrated by V. Barthe (wrapper) and includes hors-texts by Chatzman, Manet (a reproduction of his
Olympia), Picasso, Vassilieff, Fotinsky and Ganovsky (a spatial composition).
Appearing at this event were: Olga Koklova and the
Ballets Suédois of Juger Friis and Jean Borlin, the “dance of the lobster, crab and crocodile” with costumes by Marie Vassilieff and Fernand Léger, the Petrograd Puppet Theatre with costumes and puppets by Goncharova and music by Bohslav Martinou and Vernon Duke, three-dimensional poems by Iliazd and Katabadze as well as futurist poems from Vazry, a dance by Thamara Svirskya to Satie's
Gymnopédies, “Japanese Sports” by Foujita, a “Spectacle on a Star” from Tzara, a “new system of fantastical projections” from Larionov, and “universal Foot Ball” with multicolored balloons by Fotinsky and Bogoutsky.
The rooms were decorated by Barthe, Pougny, Tchelitcheff, Chazman, Lanskoy, Weinberg, Geo Charles, Chana-Orloff, Alexeieff, Maner-Katz, and Frenkel.
A rare and attractive copy.