Serge gladky (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Bursting with more than 170 brilliant decorative compositions produced in the pochoir stencil technique of the Roaring Twenties this gallery of Art Deco illustrations showcases some of the most inspired and innovative images of modern design. Beautifully reproduced from rare original French portfolios, here are intricate latticeworks of geometrical motifs, bold abstracts, mysterious collages of symbolic forms and shapes, surreal portraits of birds and animals, whimsical Cubist-flavored constructions, and much more. Ready to delight artists, designers, craftspeople, and art historians, this imaginative collection of usable Jazz Age art will be used and enjoyed again and again.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Publisher's portfolio, complete with the original ties. Quarter blue cloth with paper covered boards. Rubbing and scuffing to front cover. Includes the title page, contents page and all 20 colour pochoir stencilled Art Deco plates, two by each artist. Heavy paper with light browning. Foxing to some of the plates, mostly to the margins. All plates are full size with no trimming to the margins, all have the 'A. Calavas, Paris' imprint to lower corner. Excellent vibrant colours. A scarce complete example, housed in the original portfolio. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 28.5 x 38.5 inches (11.5 x 15.25 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 2 + 20 plates.…

Rare album of striking colourful designs by the Cubist and Art Deco Ukrainian artist, Serge Gladky (Serhii Hladky), in the original wrappers. We could trace only two copies in public institutions, at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library and Stanford. Serge Gladky's biography is rather vague. Born in the 1880s in the Poltava region of Ukraine, he studied in St Petersburg and in 1924-26 published the magazine 'Umeni Slovanu' ['Slavic Art'] whilst based in Czechoslovakia. From 1924, he lived in France where he became a prominent figure in the Art Deco movement as a designer and graphic artist. During or just before World War II, he returned to Ukraine and thereafter his fate is unknown. According to some sources, he was sent to the Gulag in 1945 for 'anti-Soviet activities' and died in the far North in 1952. Gladky published his works using the pochoir (stencil) technique popular in France at the time, employing ornamental and geometric patterns often inspired by nature and animals. Such colourful pochoir prints had to be produced in a limited number of copies in order to maintain the brightness of colour. The present edition, for instance, had only 170 copies (the present one is no. 11) with 30 full-page dynamic designs by the artist, taken from theatre and dance â" at a time when the Ballets Russes was an established and recognised innovation force. The album's preface is by the poet, novelist and art critic Andrà Salmon (1881-1969) who, together with his close friends Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, was one of the early proponents of Cubism. Salmon calls Gladky's plates 'inventions merveilles, miraculeuses', praising the artist's ability to capture the essence of Russian culture through geometric forms: 'Oh! je sais; la rà volution cubiste de 1906 a facilità la tâche de M. Serge Gladky. Sachant de ce cubisme tout ce qu'on peut en connaître, j'admire d'autant plus l'artiste russe d'en avoir su recevoir tout ce qui lui permet de recrà er, dans le temps et l'espace, dans l'heure et dans l'à ternel, sa lointaine patrie, composant des costumes qui sont autant d'absolus dà coratifs'. First edition, no. 11 of 170 numbered copies; 4to (33.5 x 25.5 cm); 33 pochoir plates (including frontispiece), some with gold or silver, on laid paper, some light foxing to a few plates; original colour wrappers, very minor staining to wrappers, otherwise a very good copy.…