VASILY SHUKHAEV (1887-1973) Portrait of Nikolai Okunev

signed, inscribed and dated ‘B Schoukhaeff 27/10 1933 Paris’ (lower right), bearing ‘Institute Slave de Prague’ exhibition label on the backing board sanguine and pencil on paper 62 x 46 cm Executed in 1933 Provenance: Nilolai Okunev, Prague Private collection Exhibited : Prague, Institute Slave de Prague, Exposition de la Peinture Russe, 1935 Nikolai Okunev (1885-1949), an art historian and medieval studies professor at Charles University in Prague, left Russia for political reasons. In his careed he made significant contributions to Old Russian, Byzantine, and Medieval Armenian Art and Architecture.