The Fox and the Wolf in beautiful images

LISSNER, Ernest (artist)

Skazka o lisichke-sestrichke i volke

[Tale of Sister Fox and the Wolf]

Publication: Lissner, Moskva, [ca. 1902].

The Fox and the Wolf in beautiful images
LISSNER, Ernest (artist). Skazka o lisichke-sestrichke i volke. [Tale of Sister Fox and the Wolf]
Published/created in: [ca. 1902]

£1,450

Scarce, large-format Russian children book of Bilibin’s time; a lovely copy in attractive condition.

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Delicate and refined interpretation of this classic Russian tale, an early and uncommon work by this talented illustrator and painter. Ernst Ernestovitch Lissner (1874–1941) was a son of a prosperous Moscow publisher, from Russian-Austrian nobility. He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he started illustrating children books for his family’s publishing house, before working for other ones (Sytin etc.) and later developing a career in historic painting.

His colourful style, comparable to his almost exact contemporary, Ivan Bilibin, draws in particular from folk productions of applied art, such as the wooden decorations of traditional Russian houses.

The work has been enjoying a renewed interest in recent decades, with many reprints since the late 1980s.

Bibliography

Aksenova G. Inostrantsy – mosckovskie knigopechatniki poslednei treti XIX – nachala XX veka // Vestnik RUDN. 2017. Vol. 16. No 4.; Kondakov S. Iubileinyi spravochnik Imperatorskoi Akademii Khudozhestv. 1764–1915. Skt. Peterburg. 1914–1915. Vol. 2.

Item number

2969

 

Physical Description

Folio (32.2 x 25.5 cm). 12 pp., illustrated throughout with reproductions after Lissner, including full-page.

Binding

Publisher’s stiff pictorial wrappers.

Condition

Slight foxing to lower margin of upper wrapper, light offsetting, very minor marginal staining, an attractive, pleasant copy indeed.

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