NIKOLAI KUZMIN (1890-1987) Illustration for ‘Levsha’ (The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea) by Nikolai Leskov, 1955

inscribed in Cyrillic (lower right) tempera, gouache on paper 39.5 x 29.5 cm (à vue) Kuzmin Nikolai Vasilyevich was a Soviet graphic artist, illustrator of works of Russian and foreign classical literature, member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. He was a pupil of Bilibin and Shillingovsky.