Lot 107: * MURATOV, NIKOLAI (1908-1992), Illustrations for the A. Tolstoy Book "Zolotoi klyuchik, ili Priklyucheniya Buratino", twenty-one work, twenty signed and eighteen dated 1949, some on the reverse.

* MURATOV, NIKOLAI (1908-1992), Illustrations for the A. Tolstoy Book "Zolotoi klyuchik, ili Priklyucheniya Buratino", twenty-one work, twenty signed and eighteen dated 1949, some on the reverse, Each ink, some with pencil or crayon, and nineteen heightened with white, on paper, the largest measuring 21.5 by 29 cm and the smallest 10.5 by 22 cm.
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist’s family by the present owner.
Private collection, USA.

Related literature: For the published illustrations, see A. Tolstoy, Zolotoy klyuchik, ili Priklyucheniya Buratino , Leningrad, Lenizdat, 1950.