Exposition de l'art russe
This is a 1906 Paris catalogue of Russian art, produced for the Salon d'automne by Diaghilev and Benois and published by Moreau frères. Its pages hold half-tone reproductions of paintings, shown as portraits and landscapes with captions in French. A designer might take from them the tonal range of early photomechanical halftone printing and the formal, tightly cropped composition of turn-of-century portraiture.
