Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Traianov, 1921; illustrator / engraver : Sirak Skitnik | detail from book coverBŭlgarski baladi / Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921, illustrator Sirak Skitnik. Book front cover | src modernism.scas.bgMaika by Sirak Skitnik. Third illustration from the cycle Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921Maika / Mourning mothers. From: Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921, illustrator Sirak Skitnik. | book scan from Alba
If you wish to learn more or read more about Sirak Skitnik and Bulgarian Modernism or Native Art, you may want to dig further here:
Modernism and the National Idea in Bulgaria @ sledva.nbu.bg (in English)
The whole batch of illustrations from the book are available to be viewed (but in very poor resolution) at the NYPL
Сирак Скитник / Sirak Skitnik ~ Maika / Mourning mothers, 1920-1921 According to Irina Genova, there are three versions of this same compositionSirak Skitnik ~ (Opustoshenie / Devastation, 1920-1921 From : Bŭlgarski baladi / Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921, illustrator / engraver : Sirak SkitnikSirak Skitnik ~ Zaklinania / Incantation, 1920-1921 Bulgarian Ballads by Teodor Trayanov, 1921, illustrator Sirak Skitnik (Zaklinania / Incantation). Book scan from Alba
Exposition de la gravure japonaise du 25 avril au 22 mai… A l’Ecole des Beaux Arts… : [affiche] engraving [1890] Author / Auteur : Jules Chéret (1836-1932) Illustrateur | src BnF ~ GallicaExposition de la gravure japonaise du 25 avril au 22 mai… A l’Ecole des Beaux Arts… : [affiche] [1890] Author : Jules Chéret (1836-1932) Illustrateur | src BnF ~ Gallica
Louis Icart :: “Smoke, or Fumée”, 1926, etching with touches of hand coloring on paper, signed in pencil on lower right, numbered 246 on lower left, with blindstamp. (detail) | src Bidsquare ~ Neue AuctionsLouis Icart :: “Smoke, or Fumée”, 1926, etching with touches of hand coloring on paper, signed in pencil on lower right, numbered 246 on lower left, with blindstamp. | src Bidsquare ~ Neue Auctions
La Calavera Garbancera [aka, La Catrina, La calavera Catrina (*)] created by Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada (zinc etching, ca. 1910 / periodical from 1913). (*) Skull of the Female Dandy, named after the mural ‘Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central’ (1947) by muralist Diego Rivera. | source wikimedia commons
La Calavera Garbancera [aka, La Catrina, La calavera Catrina] created by Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada (zinc etching, ca. 1910 / periodical from 1913)
Hans Grohs :: Das ewige Werden. Original-Holzschnitte. Heide, Verlag Heimat und Schwert Emil Sund, 1932. | The Eternal Becoming. Original woodcut. Heide, Verlag Heimat und Schwert Emil Sund, 1932. | src Bassenge Auktionen