A vintage pencil drawing by Andrei Hudiakoff, Russian, American, 1895 - 1985. Signed and dated 1970 lower right. Matted and framed. One of a kind collectible artwork. Andrei Timofeevich Hudiakoff studied in the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1917 he painted a portrait of A.F. Kerensky. From 1921 he lived in Berlin. He worked as a decorator in the theater cabaret the Blue Bird of Yasha Yuzhny. At the invitation of the conductor I. A. Dobrovein, he designed the production of Boris Godunov by M. P. Mussorgsky for the German opera. In the mid-1920s he moved to the USA. He painted covers for magazines, designed concert and variety programs that precede silent film screenings, occasionally fulfilled orders for theaters. In the 1940s he painted landscapes, still lifes and genre scenes on Russian themes. He did wall paintings, in particular, he decorated the hall in the St. Regis Hotel in New York in the Russian style. Made illustrations for Irina Alexander's informative book This is Russia.

Dimensions: Frame 14 3/4" x 11 3/4" in. Plate 11" x 7" in. All measurements are approximate.