Two Booklets with Covers Designed by Sergey Chekhonin:

1. Рабочий и театр [The Worker and the Theater], illustrated periodical, issue no. 7. Leningrad: Культотдел ЛГСПС и Управление Гос. Ак. Театров, November 1924. Russian. Includes various illustrations and photographs. Cover designed by Sergey Chekhonin.

32 pages. 26.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains and wear. Creases and tears to margins of leaves.

2. Советский фарфор [Soviet Porcelain]. Moscow: Московское художественное издательство, 1927. Russian.

A booklet containing a collection of articles dealing with the development of porcelain art in the first years after the Soviet Revolution; accompanied by plates with dozens of reproductions from the works of renowned Soviet porcelain artists (three additional reproductions tipped in to the text pages). Cover designed by Sergey Chekhonin.

21, [2] pages + [8] plates (with reproductions printed on both sides of the plate). 25.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes. The booklet's cover is placed in a plastic wrapper.

Sergey Chekhonin (Сергей Васильевич Чехонин; 1878-1936), influential Russian-Soviet graphic artist, painter, and ceramicist; member of the "World of Art" (Мир искусства) artistic movement, one of the developers of the idea of using porcelain ware for Soviet propaganda. After the 1905 revolution, he became involved in politics, grew closer to revolutionary circles, drew satirical caricatures for magazines, and began designing books.

In 1918-1923, he was the first artistic director after the October Revolution of the "State Porcelain Factory" (formerly the "Imperial Porcelain Factory"), which operated under the arts department of Narkompros – the People's Commissariat for Education, under Anatoly Lunacharsky. Chekhonin led a Constructivist design line that served the needs of the time under the new ideology. He was replaced by Punin, and returned to the artistic management of the factory in 1925-1927.

As a graphic designer, he designed banknotes and stamps, and was involved in designing the flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In 1928, he left Russia; lived in France and Germany, engaged in designing ceramic ware, stage sets, and books.