Lot 35 - SOVIET CHILDREN ILLUSTRATIONS BY NIKOLAI MURATOV

Nikolai Muratov, 1908 to 1992, ink and watercolor on paper painting depicting a boy with a huge mushroom, dated 1949, and a color print illustration showing a group of animals, titled Bonfire to the back, circa the 1950s. Both signed lower right. Matted and framed. Nikolai Evgenievich Muratov was a Russian Soviet graphic artist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. A member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists, one of the organizers of the creative association Battle Pencil. Vintage Soviet Children Paintings For Collectors.