5 June 2013 Russian Art Auctions
5 June 2013
* 515. MURATOV, NIKOLAI (1908-1992)
Toptygin the Second, Illustration for the Second Chapter of M. Saltykov-Shchedrin's "Medved' na voevodstve", inscribed in Cyrillic "M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin/Medved' na voevodstve/Toptygin 2-oi" on the reverse.
Pencil and ink, heightened with white, on paper, 28.5 by 20.5 cm.
1,500–2,000 GBP
Executed in the late 1940s.
Provenance: Private collection, Europe.
Exhibited: Nikolai Evgenievich Muratov, Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, Leningrad, 1959.
Literature: G. Pavlov, Nikolai Evgenievich Muratov, Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1959, p. 18, listed.
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