International studio . f FUJI I.\ THE MOKMNC BY WAliA EISAKU Reiieivs cuui Notices. ILLUSTRATION TO COUNT LEO TOLSTOls HAIiJI MURATBY E. E. LANCEKAY for the excellence of their reproductions, havedone well to include the volume in their seriesof illustrated (ditions de luxe of masterpieces ofRussian literature. The work of illustrating thisfine edition was assigned to Eugene Lanceray,who when he made his first appearance in themagazine Mir Iskustva was greeted as a highlygifted draughtsman and since then has accom-plished much talented work in this field. Hehas approached his task in an earnes
International studio . f FUJI I.\ THE MOKMNC BY WAliA EISAKU Reiieivs cuui Notices. ILLUSTRATION TO COUNT LEO TOLSTOls HAIiJI MURATBY E. E. LANCEKAY for the excellence of their reproductions, havedone well to include the volume in their seriesof illustrated (ditions de luxe of masterpieces ofRussian literature. The work of illustrating thisfine edition was assigned to Eugene Lanceray,who when he made his first appearance in themagazine Mir Iskustva was greeted as a highlygifted draughtsman and since then has accom-plished much talented work in this field. Hehas approached his task in an earnest andsympathetic spirit and discharged it in most happyfashion, a special journey to the Caucasus andinvestigation of historic and iconographic sourceshelping materially to that end. A series of largerc<jmpositions are reproduced hors texte in coloursor collotype, among them being some of consider-able independent interest as genre pictures. Inaddition there are a number of little scenes,typical figures, portraits and landscape motivesinserted by way of ornament, tailpieces e
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