George Orwell "Animal Farm," Illustrations by Jan Lebestein

30x20.5 cm

Underground printing, publishing house Oficyna literacka 1985. Font as on blotter leaflets. 10 ilistrations in excellent quality. Hardcover. 48 pages.

Painter and graphic artist. Studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Artur Nacht-Samborski. He debuted at the exhibition "Against War, Against Fascism" at the Warsaw Arsenal in 1955. In 1959, he received the Grand Prix at the First International Biennale of the Young in Paris for his series of paintings Axial Figures. Since then he has lived permanently in Paris. In the following years, he drew themes from ancient literature, mythology and the Bible. He created a series devoted to depictions of prehistoric animals. He was associated with the milieu of the Parisian "Kultura" and, among other things, illustrated Gustaw Herling-Grudziński's short stories published there. In 1976 he received the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Award from New York, and in 1987 he received the independent Jan Cybis Award. His works are in the collections of the National Museums in Warsaw, Cracow and Poznan, as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Nationale d`Art Moderne in Paris.