Anna Staritsky

(1908 - 1981)

4783

 

Alexandre Pouchkine

La Dame de Pique

The Queen of Spades

Brussels: La Boetie, 1947

205 x 165 mm. 62 pages

Edition: 5,100.

 

 

 

 

 

copy nr. 4634.

For this classic Russian tale Staritsky designed the cover, frontispiece, illustrations, endplates and initials. Her style is now slightly different. The designs are more sketchy and less conventional. More attention has been paid to shades and grey-tones and less to the finishing touch.

 

References:

Penaranda 1992, no. 4

Antwerpen 1999, p. 57

GRM 2000, p. 268

Eindhoven 2016, no 3