Lot 393: KUZNETSOV, KONSTANTIN

KONSTANTIN KONSTANTINOVICH KUZNETSOV (RUSSIAN 1895-1980), "Taking a Walk,"1930-1940s, gouache on carton, 30.5 x 25.7 cm. (12 x 10 1/8 in.), signed in Cyrillic 'K. Kouznetsov' lower right. Konstantin Kuznetsov was born in 1895 in St. Petersburg and became a very well known illustrator in the Soviet Union. As of 1944 he was in a prisoner of war camp in Yugoslavia, and after the war would later live in Munich before emigrating for the United States in 1950, where he would continue his career as an illustrator. Kuznetsov died in Los Angeles in 1980.

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