DMITRI KRAPIVNY (RUSSIAN 1904-1940) Self-Portrait, oil on canvas 46 x 82 cm (18 x 32 in.) Certified by the artist`s widow L. Frolova-Bagreeva (1980) on verso.
LOT NOTES Dmitry Krapivny studied at the Odessa School of Art and under Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and Alexander Savinov at the VKhUTEIN in Petrograd. Krapivny was also closely allied with Pavel Filonov, working with the Filonov school of artists as of 1927, and exhibiting his works in seminal exhibtions such as Masters of Analytical Art: The Filonov School at the House of Printing in Leningrad (1927).