Published by the Committee for the Popularization... Lot 203

Published by the Committee for the Popularization of Art Editions at the Academy of the History of Material Culture, Petersburg, between 1926 and 1928. Covers by Leonid Semyonovitch Khijinski. Editions of 3,000 copies. Format in-12°, average 30 pages with photographs. Very good condition. Contains: - Murillo and Rubens and Jordans by D.A. Schmidt; - Dutch portraiture in the 17th century and the Dutch genre scene by A.M. Pappe; - Russian porcelain figurines by S.N. Troïnitski. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of F.F. Nothafft, art lover and collector, Hermitage researcher 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.