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KHUDIAKOV, A. Russian village.

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1936. Gouache on artist board (500 x 285 mm). Signed and dated lower right; indistinctly inscribed on reverse. Framed. Khudyakov began his career in theatrical design at the Moscow Art theater. He then worked for the Berlin based cabaret company Der Blaue Vogel that was active during the particularly potent early 1920s when the German capital attracted a host of personalities, ideas and events. Khudyakov's colleagues at Der Blaue Vogel included such notables as Boguslavskaya and Tschelischtchew. Nabokov, Belyi, Puni, Lissitzky, Altman and Ehrenburg are but a few of the Russian writers and artists who were there at the time. Subsequent to his participation in the fertile Russina èmigrè community in Berlin, Khudyakov worked in Nikita Balieff's Chauve-souris as well as drawing praise for his book illustrations. Eventually he emigrated to the US, and for a time worked for the WPA Federal Theater Projects.

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