Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936) Cover design and illustrations for Korney Chukovsky's 'Fifty piglets' 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) one pencil, ink, watercolour and gouache on paper; twenty pencil and ink on paper; unframed 12 ¼ x 9 7/8 in. (30.9 x 25.1 cm.); and smaller (21) 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.
Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936) Cover design and illustrations for Korney Chukovsky's 'Fifty piglets' 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) one pencil, ink, watercolour and gouache on paper; twenty pencil and ink on paper; unframed 12 ¼ x 9 7/8 in. (30.9 x 25.1 cm.); and smaller (21) 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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