GRIGORIEV BORIS (1886–1939) Boui Boui au bord de la mer. Berlin: Petropolis, 1924. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies. Copy No. 75. French edition.

[1] frontispiece leaf, 60, [4] pp., [27] leaves of illustrations; 37×28 cm. in Russian Limited to 300 copies, including 125 numbered copies; this copy no. 75. Frontispiece and 27 collotype reproductions after paintings and drawings by Boris Grigor’ev on separate leaves. The works reproduced were provided by the Brooklyn Museum, B.D. Grigoriev, F. Gutfreund, S.A. Efronov and M.M. Erogin. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Wear, creasing, tears and losses to the wrappers and spine, front wrapper detached. Text block in good condition. The volume includes ten novellas by Mikhail Osorgin about the inhabitants of night taverns and bars on the Breton coast of France — ‘boui-boui’, as they were known there — as well as an essay by the critic S. Makovskiy on the work of the artist B. Grigoriev. Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev (1886–1939) was an outstanding Russian artist and a prominent representative of the avant-garde, regarded as one of the greatest portraitists, as well as a master of graphic art and book illustration. Although he achieved early recognition, he was forced to emigrate from Petrograd during the Civil War. Living in the West, he retained his artistic individuality and remained deeply connected to his Russian roots.