Wassily Masjutin   (1884 - 1955)

7061

Aleksandr Pushkin

Золотой Петушок

The golden cockerel

[Berlin] [1979]

460 x 394 mm. 30 prints

Edition:unknown. 

Two series of 15 handcoloured woodcuts as illustrations for Pushkin's Tale of the golden cockerel (see inv. no. 1346) designed by Masjutin in 1923. These prints are taken from the original woodblocks: one series without date of actual printing and one series dated in pencil 79. Both series are signed by a stamp signature

References:

Gebrauchsgrafik 1928:10,  pp. 50-51

Oestmann 1987, no. 41

Werner 2003, no. 504

Strasbourg 2010, pp. 173-173