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LOT 24:
Rudakov Konstantin Ivanovich
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Illustration for Guy de Maupassant's novel "Dear Friend".
Year: 1930s.
Technique: Paper, pencil, whitewash.
Size: 24х17.
Rudakov Konstantin Ivanovich (1891, Petersburg – 1949, Leningrad).
He belonged to the Leningrad school of graphic arts. He exhibited with the World of Art, Artists Workshop, New Union of Mobile Exhibitions societies. He was a student of P.P. Chistiakov, attended the private studio of V.E. Savinsky and New Art Studio, where B.M. Kustodiev, E.E. Lansere, M.V. Dobuzhinsky were his teachers. He also studied at the Academy of Arts (1913-1922) at the studio of D.N. Kardovsky. Since 1923, he contributed to the satirical magazines Smekhach, Begemot, and Krokodil, illustrated books for children. He illustrated novels by Emile Zola (La Debacle, Nana), short stories and novels by Guy de Maupassant (Boule De Suif, Bel-Ami, Une Vie, etc.), Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (1934), Leo Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace (1930-1949), etc. With time he moved to easel drawing and created such series of works as ‘Nepmans’ (‘New Riches’; 1928-1932), West (1932-34), Nude Models. He designed costumes and make-up for the theater. The artist’s works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, and in many regional museums.
