Shukhaev, Vasilii Ivanovich (1887 - 1973)	V. I. Shukhaev: Vystavki v Moskve i Leningrade. [L.,] Izdatel´stvo VAKh, 1936. 19 p., 9 half-tone plates with high resolution.	€500

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Small 8 vo, publishers covers, high quality imported paper (probably Finnish or Swedish), famous Sergei Prokof´ev portrait reproduced in this catalog. FINE. Russian painter, stage designer and draughtsman. He studied at the Stroganov School in Moscow and in 1912 graduated from the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Dmitrii Kardovskii Studio. In 1912–14 received a grant to travel abroad and went to work in Italy.Together with Aleksandr Iakovlev he championed a ‘neo-academic’ style, and together they executed a series of easel paintings and decorative works combining idealization with a refined drawing technique. Left Russia in 1920 and lived in Finland (Mustamäki) and Paris.He often painted formal portraits using gold leaf in conjunction with tempera, encaustic and oil. Went back to Russia in 1935 on Ivan Bilibin invitation, where he had two major exhibitions in 1936. Shukhaev was arrested in 1937 with his wife, also artist Vera Fedorovna Shukhaeva, and spent 10 years in GULag (Magadan). Released from the GULag in 1947 and settled in Georgia. See: Barchan, P.Russische Kunst//Deutsch Kunst und Dekoration.1923, Bd.52,S.4-6, 9, 15: Ibid.Wassily Schuchaeff//Die Kunst.1925, #26, S.87 - 96; Leikind, O.L.,et al. Khudozhniki russkogo Zarubezh´ia [..] (1999), p.634 - 636.