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A Painted Canvas Three-Panel Screen illustrating Tsarevich Ivan, The Firebird, and the Gray Wolf, ca. 1924
Auction: 10/25/2025
Lot: 70
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Ivan Iakovlevich Bilibin AUCTION RECORDS
1876 St. Petersburg, Russia - 1942 Leningrad, Russia. Known for: Book illustrations design, illustrations to The Tale of Igor's Campaign.
Most of us take a rather provincial view of Illustration and Art History. We see a fairly circumscribed set of styles and movements that can be traced fairly linearly from The Pre-Raphaelites,... Read full biography
Most of us take a rather provincial view of Illustration and Art History. We see a fairly circumscribed set of styles and movements that can be traced fairly linearly from The Pre-Raphaelites, through the Romantics and the Orientalists, with a few detours through Vienna and Berlin, but quickly... Read full biography
Most of us take a rather provincial view of Illustration and Art History. We see a fairly circumscribed set of styles and movements that can be traced fairly linearly from The Pre-Raphaelites, through the Romantics and the Orientalists, with a few detours through Vienna and Berlin, but quickly getting back on track with the great English and French illustrators and moving directly across the Atlantic to the Brandywine and beyond. The Impressionists, the Symbolists, and the Arts Nouveau and Deco... Read full biography
Most of us take a rather provincial view of Illustration and Art History. We see a fairly circumscribed set of styles and movements that can be traced fairly linearly from The Pre-Raphaelites, through the Romantics and the Orientalists, with a few detours through Vienna and Berlin, but quickly getting back on track with the great English and French illustrators and moving directly across the Atlantic to the Brandywine and beyond. The Impressionists, the Symbolists, and the Arts Nouveau and Deco are interesting side-trips that add some scenery to the journey, but the world and the World of Illustration was and is a lot broader and more varied than we've been seeing. Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942) was a Russian artist, born in St. Petersburg,... Read full biography
Most of us take a rather provincial view of Illustration and Art History. We see a fairly circumscribed set of styles and movements that can be traced fairly linearly from The Pre-Raphaelites, through the Romantics and the Orientalists, with a few detours through Vienna and Berlin, but quickly getting back on track with the great English and French illustrators and moving directly across the Atlantic to the Brandywine and beyond. The Impressionists, the Symbolists, and the Arts Nouveau and Deco are interesting side-trips that add some scenery to the journey, but the world and the World of Illustration was and is a lot broader and more varied than we've been seeing. Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942) was a Russian artist, born in St. Petersburg, somewhat isolated from the associations with traditional Russian art found so strongly among the art community in Moscow.... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeILLUSTRATION FROM THE FAIRYTALE THE WATER KING AND VASILISSA THE WISE
Ivan Iakovlevich Bilibin Auction: 06/10/2008Lot: 264Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeCOURTYARD OF THE AL-AZHAR MOSQUE AND UNIVERSITY COMPLEX, CAIRO
Ivan Iakovlevich Bilibin Auction: 04/18/2008Lot: 20Subscribe or get free alerts
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