Lot 5 - RUSSIAN SOVIET LITHOGRAPHS BY BORIS SVESHNIKOV

Boris Petrovich Sveshnikov, Russian Soviet, 1927 to 1998, collection of four lithographs on paper, depicting various scenes in townscapes. Circa: 1950s to 1970s. Boris Petrovich Sveshnikov, a Russian Nonconformist, graphic artist, and book illustrator. Refers to unofficial Soviet art. In 1946 he was repressed for anti Soviet propaganda. Rehabilitated in 1956. Belongs to the generation of the sixties. He worked for Goslitizdat, and created illustrations for books by Goethe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, H. K. Andersen, the brothers Grimm, M. Maeterlinck, K. G. Paustovsky, J. Soderberg, T. Moore, J. Vrchlitsky and others writers. One of the largest and most authoritative representatives of the unofficial art of the 1950s to1980s. Russian Graphic Art Prints and Collectibles.