NIKOLAI KUZMIN (1890-1987) Ataman Platov

Lotto 146
8001 000
Illustration for ‘Levsha’ (The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea) by Nikolai Leskov signed, dated, located in Cyrillic ‘ N. Kuzmin/29 January 1966/ Moscow’ (lower right), titled in Cyrillic ‘Ataman Platov (‘Levsha’)’ (upper left) ink on paper 24.7 x 19 cm 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.


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