Lot 177: * MURATOV, NIKOLAI (1908-1992) Illustrations for "Zolotoi klyuchik, ili Priklyucheniya Buratino" by A. Tolstoy, seventeen works

* MURATOV, NIKOLAI (1908-1992) Illustrations for "Zolotoi klyuchik, ili Priklyucheniya Buratino" by A. Tolstoy, seventeen works , seven signed and dated 1949, another numbered, some also further signed, inscribed in Cyrillic and dated 1949 or 1950, one with a sketch, on the reverse; one further inscribed on the backing paper. Each ink, some with pencil and some heightened with white, on paper, the largest measuring 30 by 21 cm, and the smallest 12 by 23 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 the 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.