34. LOUKOMSKI GEORGES, Les Russes.
Paris 1929, Les Editions Rieder, 80 pp. +LX plates.
Beautifully illustrated with 60 heliogravures original edition of a peculiar guide to the Russian nations and their art. Author Georges Loukomski (1884-1952) was an art historian. His biography echoes the turbulent times in which he lived. At the beginning of his career, he was an art conservator at the Tsarskoye Selo Palace Museum, then held the same position at the Museum of Fine Arts in Kiev. He was a member of the Archaeological Institutes in both Moscow and Kiev. He was also a founder of the St. Sophia Cathedral Museum in Kiev, where he directed conservation and inventory work. In 1920, fleeing the Bolsheviks, he went into exile in France, where he settled and died. The work was published in the Rieder publishing house's "Bibliotheèque Générale Illustrée " series describing the art of individual countries and nations. The book consists of two parts: the first is a treatise on human types in Russia and their influence on art, while the second is 60 pp. charts with city views, architectural monuments, paintings, and theater and folk and tsarist costumes.
Period, publisher's, booklet binding in average condition; spine and front cover with title; interior in db condition, probably recently slit; overall db condition.
