THREE COLOR LITHOGRAPHS BY YEVGENIA ENDRIKSON (RUSSIAN 1907-1994) Three Prints from Russian Fairy Tales, 1959-1963 lithograph plate size 55 x 44 cm. (42 x 17 1/2 in.) signed lower right, inscribed lower left
LOT NOTES Evgenia Mikhailovna Endrikson was born Zurich, Switzerland, where her parents lived after leaving Russia, having participated on the losing side in the 1905 revolution. The family returned to the Soviet Union after the 1917 revolution, and she studied at the VKHUTEMAS art school under Kupriyanov and Favorskii 1924-1930. After graduation, she worked as a graphics illustrator for the journals Pioneer and Druzhnye Rebyata, and in the 1930s designing posters for Izogiz. In the 1940s Evgenia Mikhailovna worked for the famous children’s journals Murzilka and Pioneer. From the late 1940s and through the 1950s she worked mainly as a book illustrator of children`s books. During the late 1950s and 1960s she worked on a series of gouaches and lithographs based on classical Russian folktales and fairytales. In the 1970s she prepared a large series of gouaches and lithographs, inspired by the famous Mayakovsky poem Vladimir Ilych Lenin.
comprising:
a) Konek-Gorbunok [The Humpbacked Horse], 1959 b) Tsarevna Liagushka [The Frog Princess], 1959 c) Letuchij Korabl [The Flying Ship], 1963
