Portrait of Vladimir Alekseevich Shchuko (1878-1939)

Details

Iurii Pavlovich Annenkov (1889-1974)
Portrait of Vladimir Alekseevich Shchuko (1878-1939)
signed with Cyrillic initials 'Iu. A' (lower right)
black ink and watercolour on paper
11¾ x 9¼ in. (29.9 x 23.5 cm.)

Provenance

With Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York.

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Lot Essay

Born in Tambov, Vladimir Shchuko was an architect who built many public buildings including the Lenin Library in Moscow. Along with the painter Martiros Sar'an, the graphic artist Lev Bruni and the sculptor Aleksandr Matveyev, Shchuko was a member of 4 Iskusstvo or Four Arts Society of Artists active between 1925-1929. This soviet exhibiting society featured work from all four 'arts'; painting, sculpture, graphics and architecture.

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