Lot 176: * MURATOV, NIKOLAI (1908-1992) Illustrations for "Zolotoi klyuchik, ili Priklyucheniya Buratino" by A. Tolstoy, six works

* MURATOV, NIKOLAI (1908-1992) Illustrations for "Zolotoi klyuchik, ili Priklyucheniya Buratino" by A. Tolstoy, six works , three signed, one numbered and three dated 1949, three also further signed and dated on the reverse. Each ink, some with pencil and others heightened with white, on paper, the largest measuring 26 by 21 cm and the smallest 22 by 17 cm.
The present lot is from a set of illustrations created by Nikolai Muratov for the 1950 edition of Alexei Tolstoy's fairytale Zolotoi klyuchik, ili Priklyucheniya Buratino .

Provenance: Acquired directly from artist's family by the present owner.
Private collection, USA.

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