Sergei Yutkevich, Russian, Soviet, 1904 to 1985, ink painting on paper, depicting an avant garde scene with gymnasts, probably a stage design, 1922. Signed and dated lower right. Framed. Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich, 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. One of a kind artwork.