Lot 105: * MURATOV, NIKOLAI (1908-1992), Illustrations and Cover Designs for the S. Mikhalkov Book "Puti-dorogi", twenty-two works, twenty signed, some on the reverse or on the mounting cardboard, five variously inscribed in Cyrillic, some numbered and five

* MURATOV, NIKOLAI (1908-1992), Illustrations and Cover Designs for the S. Mikhalkov Book "Puti-dorogi", twenty-two works, twenty signed, some on the reverse or on the mounting cardboard, five variously inscribed in Cyrillic, some numbered and five dated 1939, 1947, 1948 or 1953, Fourteen pencil and crayon, and eight ink or pencil, some with gouache or watercolour, on paper, the largest measuring 34.5 by 26 cm and the smallest 25.5 by 20 cm.
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist’s family by the present owner.
Private collection, USA.

Related literature: For the published illustrations, see S. Mikhalkov, Puti-dorogi , Leningrad, Detgiz, 1955.