Bowlt, John, Dr. Petrova, Evgeniia Vostretsova, Liudmila	Sluzhenie russkomu avangardu. Pamiati E. F. Kovtuna., St. Petersburg 1998., 128, color ill., plates Hard covers, VERY GOOD, FIRST EDITION	€125,00

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Autographed by John Bowlt to a prominent German culture and art historian EG. Attractive unattributed drawing in Chinese ink on title page dated December 31st 1999. John Bowlt was the only true friend of Evgenii Fedorovich Kovtun, a controversial Soviet art historian made an 'arahat' or 'boddhisatva' after his death by some contemporary official Russian art specialists. Se: Kuzminskii, Konstantin K., Kovalev, grig., eds. Antologiia noveishei russkoi poezii u goluboi Laguny/Blue Lagoon: The Anthology of Russian Poetry (1981-)