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YAKUSHEVA ALEKSANDRA IVANOVNA (RUSSIAN 1900-1986) comprising: 1. [Head of a woman], Baku, 1932, pencil on thick paper, 47.5 x 38.2 cm (18 11/16 x 15 1/16 in.), initialed in pencil, dated, and inscribed lower right 2. First secretary of the Party Committee at Ilyicha Bay, Baku, 1932, pencil on thick paper, 44.2 x 38 cm (17 3/8 x 14 15/16 in.), dated and inscribed lower right as well as on verso 3. M.Y. Babayev at Ilyicha Bay, Baku, [1932], pencil on thick paper, 54.5 x 44 cm (21 7/16 x 17 5/16 in.), initialed in pencil lower right and inscribed upper left as well as on verso 5. Comrade Kadrametov, Baku, 1933, pencil on paper, 45.5 x 36 cm (17 15/16 x 14 3/16 in.), signed, dated, and titled on verso with inscriptions throughout 5. Alatur Shakhromanov, Baku, 1933, pencil on thick paper, 52.1 x 43.7 cm (20 1/2 x 17 3/16 in.), initialed lower right, signed and inscribed on verso LOT NOTES Yakusheva was a Russian (Soviet) painted and graphic artist. From 1920 to 1924 she studied at a branch of the newly-founded VKhUTEMAS, and from 1925-1930 she attended VKhUTEMAS-VKhUTEIN as a fine artist, where she studied from S. Gerasimov, A. Drevin, K. Istomin, and R. Falk. At this time, she becomes a member of the Youth AKhRR and OMAKhR alliances. In 1928 Yakusheva begins to exhibit her works, and actively continues to do so until her death. After graduating from VKhUTEMAS-VKhUTEIN, she traveled to Azerbaijan to work as an artist at local newspapers, as well as document the Azerbaijani oil industry. Yakusheva returned to Moscow in 1932 and became a member of the Artist’s Union of the USSR, as well as began teaching. In 1935, after a successful personal exhibition in Moscow, her works were shown in Philadelphia along with other Moscow artists. Yakusheva`s works are part of many large museum collections, most notably the State Tretyakov Gallery, and state museums of Azerbaijan, Kirgizia, and Kazakhstan. PROVENANCE INFORMATION This lot comes from the collection of Viktor Kholodkov (1948-2015), who fulfilled his passion for books, avant-garde design and paper memorabilia by devoting his life to collecting and dealing of prominent works of Russian graphic art of the first half of the 20th century. The dedicated collector acquired a multitude of books and artworks throughout decades, meticulously labeling and archiving every single item. Many came directly from the most preeminent artists of the time, as well as from their families and estates. He also possessed a vast number of drawings from the famous collection of another avant-garde enthusiast, Nikolai Khardzhiev. After leaving the USSR in 1989 and settling in California, Viktor continued his work as a Soviet art dealer and critic, actively publishing various articles and contributing to several major Russian avant-garde exhibitions across the U.S., such as the 1991 Russia Under Fire in the 40s on the West Coast and the 1992 Guggenheim exhibition The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde. Kholodkov also contributed to the archives of the biggest American institutions. His sophisticated selection of over 2000 Russian sheet music covers was acquired by The Library of Congress, and an extensive amount of material related to VKhUTEMAS is now at the J. Paul Getty Museum.