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,…

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