May night, or drowned man

The famous story of Nikolai Gogol “May Night, or Drowned” first saw the light with illustrations of the best, according to Picasso, Russian drawingman. This exclusive collection publication was created specifically for those who are important to organize text and visual series.
Gogol was not by chance the beloved writer of the Soviet avant-garde artist Anatoly Zverev: he is clearly close to Gogol"s expression, a sense of humor, a love of mysterious. But the Zverev illustrations of the May Night were still stored in archives and private collections and were not available to fans.
Almost four dozen black and white drawings with a pen-the branded handwriting of the master, masterfully owned this technique and sought to capture all the most important, terrible and funny in the text: both the kisses of lovers, and pranks of paramashes, and the black soul of the witch, and the beauty of the Ukrainian nights. The appearance of this book promises to become one of the brightest events of contemporary art