VLADIMIR FAVORSKY (1886-1964) Three illustrations for ‘Famar’ of A. Globa, 1923
Lotto 160
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each signed in pencil ‘V. Favorsky’ (lower right); titled in Cyrillic (lower right, on the sheet)
woodcut on paper (each)
i) 5 x 15 cm
ii) 6 x 14.5 cm
iii) 7 x 15 cm
executed circa 1923
Provenance:
Collection of Igor Dichenko (Ihor Dychenko) (1946-2015), Soviet and Ukrainian collector, art historian, and painter; one of the ideologists of the Ukrainian avant-garde, Kyiv.
Private collection, Europe
Vladimir Favorsky was a Russian painter, engraver, and book illustrator, renowned for his mastery of woodcut and graphic illustration. A professor at the Moscow Academy of Arts, he had a profound influence on Soviet graphic art. His work blends technical virtuosity with poetic sensitivity, combining tradition and modernity.