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Cover Design And Illustrations For Korney Chukovsky's 'Fifty Piglets' by 
																	Sergei Tchekhonine

Sergei Tchekhonine

( Russian, 1878 - 1936 )

Cover Design And Illustrations For Korney Chukovsky's 'Fifty Piglets'

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Materials:

one pencil, ink, watercolor and gouache on paper; twenty pencil and ink on paper

Size Notes:

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Markings:

fourteen signed with Cyrillic initials 'S. Ch.' and dated between 1923-1934, one signed 'Serge Tchekhonine' (lower left), one signed in Cyrillic 'S. Chekhonin' (lower right); the majority inscribed with character details and numbered (on the reverse)

Literature:

K. Chukovsky, Piatdesiat' porosiat [Fifty piglets], Leningrad, 1924, some illustrated pp. 6-15, 18-24.

Provenance:

Acquired directly from Pierre Ino (1909-1989), stepson of the artist, by Alexandre Djanchieff in Paris in the late 1980s. By descent to the present owner.

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