Igor Ershov, Russian 1916-1985- Angel; gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper, initialled in Cyrillic and dated 68 lower left, 58x 41cm Provenance: Christies, London, 26 November 2008, lot 414 (in a group lot), where purchased by the present owner Note: Ershov was a painter and graphic designer. His father I. V. Ershov was an opera singer with the Imperial Marinsky Theatre and his mother was both a singer and a professor at the St Petersburg Conservatoire. He studied at the Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where he was taught by I. Brodsky and I. Bilibin, masters of the 'silver age' of Russian painting. From the 1950s onwards, Ershov worked mainly as an illustrator of children's books. At least two generations of Russian children grew up reading Khovorod with Ershov's illustrations. Ershov's works can be found in the collections of a number of Russian museums including the State Russian Museum and State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and in museums and private collections in both France and England..Please refer to department for condition report