Anna Karenina, 1951
_folio (ref: 10611)
Colour lithograph on wove paper
Barnett Freedman estate stamp
37 8/10 x 26 in. (96 x 66 cm)
Colour lithograph on wove paper
Barnett Freedman estate stamp
37 8/10 x 26 in. (96 x 66 cm)
Provenance: The Artist's Studio
This is a test sheet for the proof book illustrations of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Cambridge University Press, 1951 - one of Freedman's 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.
