BORIS CHALIAPINE (1904-1979) Portrait of the actor Leonid Kinskey
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signed ‘Boris Chaliapin’ (lower left), dated, located and dedicated in Cyrillic ‘To my dear friend Leo Kinskey from
bad-artist, 1969 NY’ (lower right)
pencil on paper
32 x 22 cm
executed in 1969
Provenance:
Leonid Kinskey
Private collection
Leonid Kinskey was a Russian-born American film and television actor, best known for his role as Sascha in
the film Casablanca (1942).