Nikolai ISSAYEV (1891-1977), a Russian artist living in Fran - Lot 185

Nikolai ISSAYEV (1891-1977), a Russian artist living in France, illustrated Russian authors, especially in the context of Russian emigration publishing in Paris in the XXᵉ century. Set of 44 original watercolors, most signed, of illustrations to works by Russian authors, presented in double mute slipcase. Format in-4. They are captioned in ink or pencil. Leo Tolstoy ("War and Peace", "Resurrection" and "Anna Karenina") - Anton Chekhov ("The Cherry Orchard" noted here as "The Cherry Garden") - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin ("The Golovlev Family") - Mikhail Sholokhov - Alexander Blok, Russian poet ("The Twelve" and "Balaganchik") - Nicolas Lieskoff - Nicolas Gogol ("Dead Souls", "The Ukrainian Vigil" and "The Revizor") - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ("The House of the Dead", "The Eternal Husband", "The Idiot", "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov") - Alexander Pushkin ("The Queen of Spades", "The Drowned", "The Bronze Rider", "Boris Godunov", "Ruslan and Ludmila", and "The Captain's Daughter") Nikolai Alexandrovich Issayev, also known as Nicolas Issayev or Mykola Isayev, was a Ukrainian artist and later a French adoptee, sought after for his modern compositions, still lifes and landscapes. Expert : Cabinet Valleriaux contact@valleriaux.com Please ask for condition reports: they are not included in the descriptions. If you succeed in getting a lot(s), please note that your lot(s) will go to Drouot's Packing (magasinage) the morning after the sale. Please ask for condition reports before the sale: they are not included in the descriptions.