Sergei Yutkevich, Russian, Soviet, 1904 to 1985, mixed media, ink and watercolor, painting on paper, depicting a stage design for a play, The Stranger, by Aleksander Blok. Signed with initials lower right. Inscribed upper left. Framed. In 1982 Sergei Yutkevich staged Alexander Bloks plays, Puppet Show and The Stranger at the Moscow Musical Chamber Theatre. Provenance: This artwork was published in a book by Mikhail Dolinsky, Art and Alexander Blok, the Soviet artist Publishing House, 1985, p. 225. Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich was a Soviet theater and film director, artist, teacher, film theorist. Doctor of Arts. Hero of Socialist Labor. A graduate of VKhUTEMAS, Yutkevich also studied at the State Directors Studios under Vsevolod Meyerhold. In 1917 to 1923 he was active as a theater director, actor, and artist in Kiev, Sevastopol, and Moscow. Yutkevich worked as a theatre artist at the Mastfor theatre studio of Nikolai Foggerer, where he designed a number of plays in collaboration with Sergei Eisenstein. During this time Yutkevich also exhibited along some of the best known contemporary avant garde Russian artists, including, in 1922, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Vladimir Lebedev. Alexander Alexandrovich Blo, 1880 to 1921, was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publicist, playwright, translator and literary critic. One of a kind artwork.