Alexandre Iacovleff’s Dessins et Peintures d’Afrique
UK: ONE of 50 coloured illustrations from Alexandre Iacovleff’s Dessins et Peintures d’Afrique of 1927, which sold for £800. One of 100 copies, it comprised a text volume in leather-backed satin covers painted with an African design and a pigskin portfolio containing the loose plates.
Presented in similar fashion was Iacovleff’s Dessins et Peintures d’Asie, one of 700 sets of c.1930,…