Boris Korolev, Russian, 1884 to 1963, pencil on paper drawing, Study of a Male Figure, circa the 1920s. Signed lower right. Boris Danilovich Korolev, a Soviet sculptor monumental, teacher, and public figure, was an active participant in the execution of Lenin's Monumental Propaganda Plan of April 1918, which encouraged the destruction of Tsarist monuments and the rapid production of Soviet themed sculptures and bas reliefs. Korolyov continued working in the Cubist style into the 1920s and became a professor of sculpture at the Soviet state art school, Vkhutemas. The lot comes from the collection of Viktor Kholodkov, a renowned art dealer and collector who devoted his life to collecting prominent works of Russian artists of the 20th century. Russian Soviet Drawings And Art Collectibles.