SERGEI EISENSTEIN (1898 - 1948) Double-sided drawing: Mexican series

i) pastel, whitewash on paper ii) pencil on paper signed with monogram and dated ‘29/XI/42’ (upper right); ownership stamp of Igor Dichenko collection (on the reverse) 29 x 20.4 cm Provenance: Collection of Igor Dichenko (Ihor Dychenko) (1946-2015), Soviet and Ukrainian collector, art historian, and painter; one of the ideologists of the Ukrainian avant-garde, Kyiv. Private collection, Europe Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein the renowned Soviet filmmaker and theorist, was also an accomplished illustrator and caricaturist. After groundbreaking films like Battleship Potemkin and October in the USSR, he traveled to Hollywood in 1930 seeking film work but failed to secure a studio project. Through the writer Upton Sinclair, he then signed a contract to create a film in Mexico titled ¡Que viva México!. Eisenstein staid in Mexico from 1930 to 1932, he produced numerous drawings and sketches inspired by Mexican culture, landscapes, and people, vividly capturing the country’s colors and energy.