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Original title: Собачки This book was both written and illustrated by Vera Mikhailovna Ermolaeva (1893–1937), one of the most remarkable figures of the Russian avant-garde. A practicing artist as well as a leading theorist, she headed the Laboratory of Color at the State Institute of Artistic Culture (GINKhUK) in Petrograd, […]
Vera Mikhailovna Ermolaeva (1893–1937) — Russian painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. Born into a landowning family, Ermolaeva received her education in Paris and Lausanne. She graduated from Princess Obolenskaya’s Gymnasium in St. Petersburg in 1910 and from the Archaeological Institute in 1917. She studied in M. Bernstein’s studio and was […]