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Lot 72
IACOVLEFF, ALEXANDRE EVGENIEVICH Dessins et Peintures d'Asie. Exécutés au cours de l'Expedition Citroen Centre-Asie. Deuxième mission Haardt Audouin-Dubreuil.
Paris: Meynial, 1934. First edition, copy 499 of 500. Text bound in the oriental manner, the upper cover lettered in Chinese, this and the plates in the publisher's printed portfolio, retaining ties. 15 x 11 inches (38 x 28 cm); 16 ff., decorated with drawings; with 49 color plates numbered 1-50 (including one double-page). Some wear to and soiling to the outer case, lower corner of text and plates with a soft crease in the extreme lower right corner, but in all a good example.
Iacovleff was the official artist of the Croisière Jaune expedition sponsored by the car maker Citroën. This extraordinary journey by car went from Beirut, to Syria, across Afghanistan, the Himalaya Mountains, the Gobi Desert and the rest of Asia, all the way to Peking, a nearly 20,000 mile journey in all, under difficult conditions for much of the way. Tragically, the expedition's leader, Georges-Marie Haardt, fell victim to pneumonia on board ship returning to France and died. Iacovleff contributed a magnificent set of portraits of the peoples of central Asia, with several landscapes and animal studies.
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