Jean Lébédeff · L’Ordine Nuovo

Name: Jean Lébédeff
Born: November 1884, Bogorodskoye, Nizhny Novgorod province, Russia; exact day unresolved (see note)
Died: 21 September 1972, Nîmes, France
Aliases: Ivan Konstantinovich Lebedev; Ivan Lebedeff (printed); Jean Lebedeff; Jean Lébédeff; Ivan Lebedov (printed in I.23)
Position in 1919–1920: Wood engraver, illustrator and artist working in Paris
Affiliations: Anarchist movement; Turgenev Library, Paris (board, 1914–1925); La Forge (artwork reproduced in I.19)
Council delegate: unknown
Bio: Lébédeff left Russia after conflict with tsarist authorities and settled in Paris in 1909, developing a career in wood engraving and book illustration. His work circulated among French and Russian literary and anarchist circles; he also served on the board of the Turgenev Library. During the 1920s he contributed illustrations to anarchist periodicals and assisted émigré activists. L’Ordine Nuovo reproduced his portrait of Gorky from La Forge in September 1919.
Articles: 0
Indexed full catalog cards · Issues I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, I.7, I.8, I.9, I.10, I.11, I.12, I.13, I.14, I.15, I.16, I.17, I.18, I.19, I.20, I.21, I.22, I.23, I.24, I.25, I.26, I.27, I.28, I.29, I.30, I.31, I.32, I.33, I.34, I.35, I.36, I.37, I.38, I.39, I.40, I.41, I.42, I.43, II.1, II.2, II.3, II.4, II.5, II.6. Coauthored cards count once for each named author. Serialized installments are counted as separate issue cards.
Brief records / quotations: 2 · Separate from the Articles count.
Other Notes: The Russian Art Archive Network gives 25 November 1884; the House of Russian Abroad gives 24 November (12 November Old Style). The day remains unresolved. This is the engraver, not the actor Ivan Lebedeff. The Gorky portrait earns a brief visual-record credit, not a full written-article credit. Issue I.23 credits the woodcut portrait of Henri Barbusse to Ivan Lebedov; it is a second brief visual credit, not a written article.

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