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Lot n° 378 Constructivisme - VILIPS (Pāvils). 21 Dzeja. Riga, izdevnieciba Tagadne, 1930. In-12 broché, couverture conçue par Eriks KALIS (1904-1939), graphiste et scénographe letton, membre du groupe d'artistes d'avant-garde de Riga. Petits cachet et notes manuscrites à l'encre en haut de la dernière de couverture. Première édition de ce recueil de Pavils Vilips (1901-1979), poète, essayiste et traducteur letton, membre du groupe d'écrivains expressionnistes dans les années 1920, très inspirés par la vie urbaine contemporaine. ""[.] Kalis's design for [.] Vilips's poems, 21 dzeja [21 poems], draws on the Constructivist geometry and typography favored by Lissitzky in his Berlin books and by Kassák's own graphic programs from the early 1920s."" Davis, R. H. - Kasinec E.: Graphic Modernism from the Baltic to the Balkans, 1910-1935. The New York Public Library, New York 2007. p. 42.