1922
pen and ink on paper
21 x 24.5 cm (8 1/4 x 9 5/8 in.)
signed and dated lower left with monogram in the center

PROVENANCE
The family of the artist
Acquired by the present owner in the late 1980s


Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich was an important Russian (Soviet) screenwriter, film director, and artist born in 1904 in St. Petersburg. A graduate of VKhUTEMAS (1921-1923), Yutkevich also studied at the State Director`s Studios under Vsevolod Meyerhold. In 1917-1923 he was active as a theater director, actor, and artist in Kiev, Sevastopol, and Moscow. Yutkevich worked as a theatre artist at the "Mastfor" theatre studio of Nikolai Foggerer, where he designed a number of plays in collaboration with Sergei Eisenstein. During this time Yutkevich also exhibited along some of the best-known contemporary avant-garde Russian artists, including, in 1922, (the same year the following drawing was produced) Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Vladimir Lebedev.