Irène FANSHAWE (1912-1989, Russian-born painter... Lot 267

Irène FANSHAWE (1912-1989, Russian-born painter and illustrator) / Set of 31 original drawings from the 1950s based on Andersen fairy tales, preparatory for book illustrations, pencils on tracing (27) or paper (4), most captioned by the artist and bearing the studio stamp (average 25 x 32 cm, some smaller), preserved in a folder captioned and signed by the artist: "La petite sirène" (9, including 2 on paper), "La reine des neiges" (4), "La fille du roi de la vase" (4), "La petite fille aux allumettes" (4, including 1 on paper), "La femme du pirate" (4), "Le petit ramoneur" (1), "Le vilain petit canard" (1), "Histoire d'une mère" (3), "Sous le saule" (1 on paper)