The article examines the creative work of Ukrainian graphic artist Serhiy Yakutovych, related to the illustration of works of world classics, including Shakespeare's. The introduction is outlined the problem of the state and nature of the certainty of book illustrations by S. Yakutovich based on the works of W. Shakespeare. It is determined that over the last decade, scientific interest in under-standing the work of the master has increased. Researchers study the artist's artistic work in the di-rection of his easel and book graphics, in the context of the artistic activity of the Yakutovych family circle, as well as through the prism of general trends in Ukrainian graphic art of the last quarter of the twentieth century. The exposition of the main part is divided into three paragraphs, in which the graphic activity of S. Yakutovych's ideological predecessors, features of the artist's graphic activity in the 1980s, analysis of S. Yakutovych's illustrations to Shakespeare's works are consistently considered. It is determined that S. Yakutovych's artistic heritage, widely known to the domestic art circle of researchers, consists of graphic works, which S. Yakutovych himself identified as the most valuable and most often exhibited at exhibitions. It is easel series of social etchings of the 1980s., book graphics of works by M. Gogol, M. Dostoevsky, O. Pushkin, O. Tolstoy, L. Tolstoy, O. Dumas, O. Gonchar, L. Kostenko, French and Estonian epics, Ukrainian Cossack history. The conclusions of the study emphasize the uniqueness of little-studied aspects of the artist's work, which deepens the knowledge of the development of the author's style and handwriting, details topics covered by the graphic artist and understanding of his artistic goals.
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