Zhar-ptitsa: Ezhemesiachnyi literaturno-khudozhestvennyi illustrirovannyi zhurnal [Firebird: A Monthly Literary Artistic Magazine], No. 13

Berlin; Paris: Russkoe iskusstvo, 1925. Bakst, Leon (1866-1924). Item #317

32x25 cm. In original publisher's illustrated wrappers. Text in Russian. Tears on the spine, foxing. Lavishly illustrated throughout with black and white and color plates. Cover design by Leon Bakst. One of approximately 300 copies.

One of the most famous emigre art journals published in Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. The magazine cooperated with the greatest Russian artists such as M. Shagal, K. Somov, L. Bakst, B. Grigoriev, S. Sudeikin, A. Benois, A. Yakovlev, and other members of Mir Iskusstva [World of Art].

Even separate issues of the magazine are a great bibliographic rarity.

Sold