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KABAKOV, Ilya Isifovich (b. 1933). Illustrator. Co

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Comprising: Detyam [For Children]. Moscow: "Detskaya Literatura," 1964. By Iulian Tuvim. Puteshestvie v gorod Chudakov [Travels in the Eccentric Town]. Moscow: "Detskaya Literatura," 1968. By Vera Rerra-Mikura. Prikliucheniya Gugutse [The Adventures of Guguts]. Moscow: "Detskaya Literatura," 1972. By Spiridon Stepanovich Vangeli. Tetuskhka Zubnaya Bol [Aunty Tooth-Ache]. Moscow: "Detskaya Literatura," 1972. By S. Georgievskaya. Malenkaya Baba-Yaga [Little Baba-Yaga]. Moscow: "Detskaya Literatura," 1973. By Otfrid Proisler. Propavshie nitki [Disappearing Thread]. Moscow: "Malysh," 1980. By Evgenii Permyak. Shkola peshekhoda [The School for Pedestrians]. Moscow: "Malysh," 1984. By Mikhail Krivich and Olgert Olgin. Condition: light discoloration to a few wrappers, light rubbing to some boards. In 2000 ArtNews named Ilya Kabakov one of the "ten greatest living artists." Before he emerged as a major conceptional artist, Kubakov was a prolific illustrator of children's books He illustrated his first when he was still a student and they remained his chief source of income until he emigrated to the West in 1987. His early pictures display the playfulness and graceful style of Vladimir Konashevish's late work. (7)

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