[Spark]. Iskorka. No 8.

Cover design by K. Kuznetsov.

Moskva, Rabochaia Moskva, 1929.
8vo, 24 pp., ill.

In original pictorial wrappers.
In good condition, stained to cover, rubbing to spine and cover edges, minor soiling to some pages, stamp of the Section of the Management Technology Institute (which existed for only a few years in the 1920s) to back cover.

Illustrations for this issue of children magazine were created by the painter and graphic artist Aleksandr Deyneka (1899-1969), who is regarded as one of the most important Soviet modernist figurative painters of the first half of the 20th century. He studied at VKhUTEMAS under Ignatii Nivinskii and Vladimir Favorsky. Deyneka was one of the founders of the Society of Easel Painters (OST) and a member of the October Group, a collective of constructivist artists active from 1928 to 1932. In his early period, the artist depicted genre scenes as well as labor, often highlighting the beauty of the naked athletic body. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, he collaborated with children's publishing houses and several magazines.