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Lot Essay
Vasili Ivanovich Shukhaev studied at the Stroganov Institute in Moscow and under Vasili Savinsky and Dmitri Kardovsky at the Higher Art Institute of the Academy in St. Petersburg.
He was associated with the World of Art movement and in 1910 he drew the painter Vrubel on his deathbed. After the Revolution, he executed Agitprop decorations for the Lietenant Shmidt Bridge in Petrograd in 1918 and he taught at the Petrograd Free State Art Education Studios.
He emigrated to Paris in 1920, where he designed for Balieff's Théâtre de la Chauve-Souris. The same year he exhibited with Aleksandr Yakovlev at the Galerie Barbazanges in Paris.
He returned to Russia in 1935, but was exiled to Magadan where he made designs for the local theatre. From 1947 he taught drawing at the Tblisi Academy in Georgia.
He was associated with the World of Art movement and in 1910 he drew the painter Vrubel on his deathbed. After the Revolution, he executed Agitprop decorations for the Lietenant Shmidt Bridge in Petrograd in 1918 and he taught at the Petrograd Free State Art Education Studios.
He emigrated to Paris in 1920, where he designed for Balieff's Théâtre de la Chauve-Souris. The same year he exhibited with Aleksandr Yakovlev at the Galerie Barbazanges in Paris.
He returned to Russia in 1935, but was exiled to Magadan where he made designs for the local theatre. From 1947 he taught drawing at the Tblisi Academy in Georgia.