Vintage Pen and Ink Illustration by Artist Anatoly Itkin for "Dangerous Liaisons"

Description

Vintage pen & ink illustration with watercolor by Anatoly Itkin of a formal gathering at a table overlooking documents by … more Vintage pen & ink illustration with watercolor by Anatoly Itkin of a formal gathering at a table overlooking documents by candlelight. A drawing from a group of illustrations he prepared for "Dangerous Liaisons" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Presented matted and in a gilt wood frame. Signed and dated 1982 under matting.

Image size: 4.5" x 6"
Overall dimensions: 11.125" x 13.125"

Anatoly Itkin (B. 1931 in Moscow) graduated from the Moscow Art School in 1950. Beginning in 1954, he worked as an illustrator in many Moscow publishing houses where he illustrated a number of books including classics like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Itkin was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, Honored Artist of Russia, winner of many competitions, and his works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Pushkin Museum, Central Pushkin Museum in St. Petersburg, the State Museum of Literature, Literary Museum A. Tolstoy in Samara, the Museum-Reserve "Abramtsevo", Tver Regional Museum and in private collections around the world. less