EROTICA Acts Set 3 Original Signed Graphic Ex-Librises Bookplates by Famous Estonian Artist
Henno Arrak, Tallinn 1981, 1984, 1990. Size: 93 x 122, 90 x 128 & 107 x 150 mm. The ex-librises is really old,
which printed 30 - 40 years ago, but not modern reprint or more late re-edition. Very Fine not used condition,
traces time (please see images).
From 1949 to 1955, he was a political prisoner in Kazakhstan as a distributor of anti-Soviet leaflets. He continued his studies
in 1957 in the ERKI, graduated from the 1963 book graphic arts specialty. Worked as an artist at the Estonian Department
of the All-Union Chamber of Commerce, in the publishing house "Valgus", in the title of the ENE, the Estonian Book of
1969-1970 as the chief figure. Since 1966, he was a member of the Estonian Artists' Union. Freelance artist since 1970.
He has been highly acclaimed author of excercises and post stamps in the field of wood engraving, being the top echelon
of this area in Estonian graphics. With his exibitions, he held personal exhibitions in 1994 at the Moscow Ex-libris Museum
(with husband's artist Iris Uug), in 2005 at the Mustamäe Cultural Center's Kaja Gallery and in 2013 at the Frederikshavn
Exilebrize and Art Museum. In 1995, the Estonian Exilebibliothek Society published a directory of exlibris created from
1957-1994 created by Henno Arrak. In the 1970s, he also designed medals.
Henno Arrak has illustrated and arranged a number of books - Sergei Mihhalkov "Ono Stjopa, Three Stories of Uncle Styopa"
(1973), Enn Kippel "Meelis" (1961, 1976), Karl Ristikivi "The Man's Way" (1990), Voldemar Vaga "Art Tartu in the 19th Century"
(1971),"Art in Tallinn in the 19th Century "(1976), Ethel Lilian Voynich" Kiin "(1977). Henno Arrak is one of the translators of
Alexander Soltzhenitsyn novel "Archipelago GULAG" I-III (1990). His book has been published by the Tartu National Museum
of Art on "Henno Arrak drawings and exhibitions" (1985).