Russian Emigrant book. Charles Perrault “Kot v Sapogah” (Puss in Boots) Fairy tale. Lithographed Illustrations by Konashevich. Publishing house Z.I. Grzhebina, 1922. In Russian, 12 pp., 30.2×23.4 cm.
In publisher's illustrated cardboard. Condition: Covers worn, rubbed, stained, detached; binding is loose; light brown paper; small tears and missing places to edges; some foxing and brown stains to all pages.
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Konashevich (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Конашевич, May 19, 1888, Novocherkassk—February 27, 1963, Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg) was a Russian graphic artist and illustrator. Among his artwork are scores for Manon Lescaut and Andersen's The Fairy Tales.[1]
Konashevich also illustrated the works of Samuil Marshak and issues of the publishing house Academia. His story O sebye i svoyom dele (About Me and My Work) was published in 1968.
His illustrations for Daniil Kharms' игра (Play) can be seen in The Fire Horse: Children's Poems By Mayakovsky, Mandelstam and Kharms (tr. Eugene Ostashevsky), New York: NYRB 2017
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