[ALEXANDER RODCHENKO, ILLUSTRATOR], A COMPLETE RUN OF THE SOVIET AVANT GUARD JOURNAL LEF, 1923-1925 LEF. RODCHENKO, Aleksander (designer) and MAIAKOVSKII, Vladimir (editor). LEF. Zhurnal Levogo Fronta Iskusstv. [LEF. Journal of the Left Front of the Arts]. Moscow and Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel`stvo, 1923-1925, COMPLETE RUN.
7 vols, (230 x 152mm). Illustrations, some printed in colors. (Some marginal browning.) Original illustrated wrappers. A COMPLETE SET OF THIS PIONEERING PUBLICATION. Osip Brik, Sergei Tretiakov, Boris Pasternak, and Varvara Stepanova all contributed; Sergei Eisenstein published his article `Montage of attractions` in the pages of this influential avant-garde magazine. The final issue includes the elegy of Lenin which brought Maiakovskii national fameFotografia Publica, p.154; Hellyer 278; MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 500.