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OLGA DEINEKO (RUSSIAN 1897-1970) Illustration to The Masque of the Red Death by Edward Allen Poe, gouache and ink on paper image size 17.1 x 9.5 (6 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
PROVENANCE Acquired from the artist`s widower, Nikolay Troshin
LOT NOTES Olga Deineko was born in Ukraine and studied at VKhUTEMAS under Ilya Mashkov. She worked as a graphic artist and designer, and was a member of Society of Revolutionary Poster Designers. The wife of Nikolai Troshin, she was also well known as childrens book illustrator in the late 1920s and early 1930s.