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Dimensions: measurements 15 1/4 by 11 in. alternate measurements 39 by 28 cm

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Literature: Vsevolod Petrov, Russian Art Nouveau: The World of Art and Diaghilev's Painters, Bournemouth, 1977, postcard designed from present lot illustrated on p. 150

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK
This lot is accompanied by a postcard designed from A Married Woman of Olonets Province and issued by the publishing house of the Red Cross Society of St. Eugenia, St. Petersburg.

Objects used in everyday peasant life, photographs and sketches brought back from the Russian North, and an assortment of publications dealing with the cultural history of Russia were Bilibin's constant companions. In 1904, the ethnographic department of the Russian Museum sent the artist to Olonets Province, near Petrozavodsk. The trip resulted in a series of postcards for the Red Cross Society of St. Eugenia, for which the present lot is a study. The members of the World of Art group, Bilibin among them, gladly contributed to the publications of the Society of St. Eugenia, founded in St. Petersburg in 1882. The society's publishing house largely devoted itself to education; its series of open letters, travel guides, and monographs introduced the Russian public to the nation's cities, artistic treasures, and works by contemporary artists.