Sold for:
$18,750
$18,750
gouache on paper 20. 3 x 26.4 cm each (8 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.) LOT NOTES These are the original drawings created by Konstantin Kuznetsov as a part of a series of images used to accompany the narration of the story of the birth of Jesus. Konstantin Kuznetsov was born in 1895 in St. Petersburg and became a very well known illustrator in the Soviet Union. As of 1944 he was in a prisoner of war camp in Yugoslavia, and after the war would later live in Munich before emigrating for the United States in 1950, where he would continue his career as an illustrator. Kuznetsov died in Los Angeles in 1980.
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2016-12-10
