Barnett Freedman: Proof Design Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, 1951 - on Art WW I

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Barnett Freedman:
Proof Design Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, 1951

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Colour lithograph proof on wove paper 

Barnett Freedman estate stamp 

37 8/10 x 26 in. (96 x 66 cm)

Tags: Barnett Freedman lithograph illustration



Provenance: The Artist's Family


This is a test sheet for the proof book illustrations of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Cambridge University Press, 1951 - one of Freedmans most accomplished achievements in the field of book illustration.  Issued as part of the Limited Editions Club in 1951 the publication comprised two volumes bound in cloth decorated with lithographic drawings by Barnett Freedman drawn on and printed from a phenominal 225 stones, printed  at the Curwen Press. 


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