KUKRYNIKSY (ACTIVE 1924-1980S) Nikolay Tchekheidze, 1925 ink and watercolor on paper laid on paperboard 46.5 x 35.5 cm (18 1/4 x 14 in.)
LOT NOTES Kukryniksy is a combination of the names of three caricaturists, Mikhail KUpreyanov, Porfiri KRYlov and NIKolai Sokolov, who had met at VKhutemas in the early 1920s, and began drawing caricatures under the joint signature as of 1924. The Kukyniksy became famous nationally and internationally in the 1930s, for their caricatures, relating to fascism and caricaturing figures such as Hitler, Mussolini, Himmler, Goebbels and Franco, which were published in satirical journals such as Krokodil and widely printed newspapers such as Pravda.
This lot is a caricature on a Georgian Social Democrat politician Nikolay Tchekheidze (Chkheidze), who was a key figure in the Russian Revolution (February 1917 to October 1917) as the Menshevik president of the Executive Committee of the Soviet of Petrograd, Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic.
