Emil Orlik: Die drei Glückskinder
watercolour, 1901 Sheet Size: 21 x 20 cm - (8¼ x 7¾ inches) signed and dated
an extra-ordinary example of unusual "Orlikiana" presumably painted for a projected series of illustrations for Grimms Fairy Tales no record exists of Orlik having done so
Die drei Glückskinder (The three children of fortune) was number 70 fo the Grimms Brothers tales. It tells the tale of three brothers who Inherit a rooster, a scythe, and a cat
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