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.