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Illustration for the Book "Little Lord Fauntleroy"

Alfred Zmuda

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Basic information
ID
Г-V-2158
Author
Alfred Zmuda
Name
Illustration for the Book "Little Lord Fauntleroy"
Date of creation
1920s
Technique
drawing
Material
tracing paper pen Indian ink
Dimensions (height x width, cm)
27.8 x 19.5
Additionally
Type
graphic art
Genre
illustration
Provenance
Purchased from D. Semchyshyn, 1988
Information about author
Author
Alfred Zmuda
Artist's lifetime
1897–1966
Country
Poland
Biography
Alfred Żmuda (1897, Kraków – 1966, Kraków) – graphic artist, painter, illustrator. Studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, graduating under the supervision of Józef Mehoffer (1924). Żmuda was closely associated with the Kraków art scene. Created oil and watercolour paintings. His main subjects were still lifes, landscapes, seascapes (in particular, a well-known series depicting ships and boats from the fishing port on the Hel Peninsula), genre scenes from Kraków, nude paintings, and religious themes. His early works combined the influence of the Young Poland movement, formalism, and Art Deco. The artist often used a muted colour palette, limiting himself to shades of blue and green with accents of red. Alfred Żmuda also created illustrations for newspapers and weeklies (particularly in the "Illustrated Courier of Civil Time"), books (e.g., for the works of Max Brand), letters, and greeting cards. In collaboration with Antoni Wasilewski, the artist also created figures for satirical nativity scenes.
Object description
A rectangular drawing in black ink. In the centre is a young man sitting in a chair. He is dressed in the traditional clothing of an English lord: a black frock coat with a puffy white collar and white stockings, a voluminous hairstyle, and long curly hair. The chair is richly decorated with carved legs in the shape of plant shoots, an oval backrest adorned with plant motifs, and finished with a coat of arms and handles featuring the heads of mythical animals on the ends. The chair stands on a floor resembling small cobblestones. Above the drawing is a semicircular caption in black ink: "Frances Burnett". Below the drawing: "Little Lord". The work is enclosed in a black rectangular frame. "Little Lord" ("Little Lord Fauntleroy") is the first novel for children written by Anglo-American author Frances Hodgson Burnett, which quickly became famous and has remained one of the favourite books of children for decades. Alfred Żmuda created about a dozen illustrations and several cover designs for the book, which was published in 1923 in Lviv by Mykhailo Taran and translated by Varvara Litynska.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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