BORIS CHALIAPINE (1904-1979) Portrait of the actor Leonid Kinskey

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).