I scanned the following illustrations by Richard Floethe from a 1937 “Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf” edition of Pinocchio. It’s a beautiful clothbound, slightly oversize, book that I found at a book sale.
The ghost image you see here is from the illustration on the page facing the text. I got it by messing with the levels in Photoshop.
From the artist’s website:
Richard Floethe — (1901 – 1988) was a prolific artist of considerable stature. He was born in Essen, Germany and received his art training at the Munich State School, the Dartmund Art School, and at the Bauhaus in Weimar. While at the Bauhaus, he studied design with Paul Klee and color theory and composition with Wassily Kandinsky. He came to the United States in 1928.
Click the Girl in Red to visit Floethe’s site. There are several galleries spanning his career which lasted almost until his death in 1988.
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