Tatiana by Bilibin [Villeroy & Boch ]

Product Description

Tatjana (Tatiana) Porzellanbild (Porcelain picture). Original by the Russian artist and illustrator Boris Zworykin. From the "Russian Beauty" collection circa 1900 and credited to his illustrations for Boris Godunov. Porcelain tile was made by Villeroy & Boch in West Germany. In the walnut frame designed especially for the tile. Both in near fine condition. Size including frame is 6⅛" by 8¼". 1 only.

Boris Zworykin (1872-1942) is celebrated as one of the most important of Russia's ornamental illustrators. A highly popular work based on his art is The Russian Fairy Tales decorative plate collection, a series cycle produced from 1980-1983 by Villeroy and Boch. The original illustrations, which are housed in the Metropolitan Museum at New York, were created over 100 years ago, following Zworykin's emigration to Paris after the Russian Revolution. He used gouache, a type of paint consisting of pigment suspended in water, that intensifies brilliance of colors.