£370 

Barnett Freedman:
Proof Design Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, 1951
_folio (ref: 10615)

Colour lithograph proof on wove paper.  Barnett Freedman estate stamp.

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 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 phenomenal 225 stones, printed  at the Curwen Press.