NEIZVESTNY ERNST (1925-2016), AUTOGRAPH Govorit Neizvestnyi [Neizvestny Speaks]. [Frankfurt-on-the-Main]: Posev, 1984. - 175 p.: ill.; 20x13.5 cm.

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In the author's typographic publisher's cover. Author's autograph on a separate sheet of red paper: "Sergei, Privet - Spasibo! Poklon tvoyey zhene. S druzhboy E. Neizvestnyi."[ "Sergei, Greetings - Thank you! Greetings to your wife. With friendship, E. Neizvestnyi."] On the reverse side, there is a drawing by the author and a signature. Presumably, the autograph is addressed to Sergei Nersesovich Krikoryan (1925-2015). A black and white photograph of E. Neizvestnyi is enclosed. This is an anthology of articles and essays by the renowned Soviet and American sculptor Ernst Neizvestnyi (1925-2016), who gained fame for creating expressive expressionist sculptures with powerful plasticity and deep philosophical meaning. Sergei Nersesovich Krikoryan (1925-2015) was an engineer-economist and the son of a White Army officer who emigrated from Russia at the end of the Civil War. Since the early 1960s, he lived in Switzerland and was a member of the Russian Circle at the University of Geneva. He actively followed the literary process and never missed an opportunity to meet writers who had left their homeland or visited from the Soviet Union. A bibliophile, he assembled an extensive library. This is a collection of articles and essays by the renowned Soviet and American sculptor Ernst Neizvestnyi (1925-2016), who gained fame for creating expressive expressionist sculptures with powerful plasticity and deep philosophical meaning.