Viktor Alexandrovitch NIKOLSKI (1875-1934) Decorative... Lot 192

Viktor Alexandrovitch NIKOLSKI (1875-1934) Decorative Arts of Old Russia -. Published by Brokhaus-Efron, St. Petersburg, 1923. Format in-8°, 96 pages, 9 leaves of photographic illustrations. Very good condition. With the publisher's prospectus for February 1923, in 12° format, 4 pages. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of F.F. Nothafft, art lover and collector, researcher at the Hermitage and founder of the Aquilon publishing house. Paula Nothafft was made famous by painter B.M. Kustodiev's portrait of her; in 1923, she left Soviet Russia for Switzerland with her son Andrei, who would later become a major industrialist.