Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (21 x 15 cm). In Turkish. 116 p. Munif Fehim (1899 - 1983), was the son of the renowned actor Ahmet Fehim, Münif at an early age did the sets for a play by Musahipzade Celal entitled Istanbul Efendisi (an Istanbul gentleman). After graduating from a school in Scutari, he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts, and in the 1910s illustrated a book by Leyla Saz. He did sets and costumes for turkish films, and his first drawings were published in the magazine Fagfur. In 1921 Fehim was hired as an artist by the newspaper 'Ileri', while in 1924 he teamed with some writers to put out a humor magazine called Kelebek (Butterfly), for which he was the chief artist. He also illustrated Classical Turkish poetry in Refik Halid (Karay)'s magazine 'Aydede', this illustrations later being collected in an album entitled Siir Bahçeleri (=Gardens of Verse). In 1937 Fehim had his first exhibition, together with Cemal Nadir at Istanbul's Taksim Kristal Gazino. He worked for such magazines and newspapers as 'Akbaba, Ikdam, Vakit, Mizah, Son Posta, Cumhuriyet, Tan, Yedigün, and Yirminci Asir', and in 1940 illustrated books entitled 'Elli Türk Büyügü' =[Fifty Great Turks], and 'Dünden Hatiralar' =[Memoires of yesteryear]. During the 1950s he drew for the magazine 'Resimli Tarih Mecmuasi' =[Illustrated history] published by Server Iskit. Fehim's illustrations left their stamp on one period of publishing, as he drew for both newspapers and magazines, treating historical subjects and recent life in Istanbul with a keen, documenting eye.
