In Russian. Short description: Fifty piglets: Children’s and folk songs [Pyatdesyat porosyat: Detskie i narodnye pesni]. Comp.by K. Chukovsky; Drawings by S. Chekhonin. Leningrad; Moscow: A. Marx Publishing House, 1924. 24 p. 5000 copies (23.4×29.8 cm). Collection of children’s songs and nursery rhymes, processed by Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky. Edition illustrated by S. Chekhonin. Together with Heorhiy Narbut and Dmitry Mitrokhin, Chekhonin belongs to the second generation of the World of Art, the so-called artists who entered the union in the 1910s. Widely known as a graphics artist and creator of the so-called propaganda porcelain, he illustrated many Soviet publications, and even managed to invent a completely original way of multi-color printing on fabric. His works are in many museums of the USSR, and his artistic legacy is thoroughly diverse. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS001908