Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov, Russian, 1889 to 1974, mixed media, ink, watercolor, and gold leaf, painting on paper depicting an Avant Garde French advertising magazine cover, Pour Votre Beaute, For Your Beauty. Signed lower right. Provenance: William J. Jenack Auctioneers, Chester, NY, United States, January 04, 2015, lot 75. Yuri Annenkov is a Russian artist, known for Book illustration, portrait painting, and costume design. Yury Pavlovich Annenkov, also known as Georges Annenkov, was born in 1889 in Petropavlovsk, Russian Empire. He was a Russian artist mostly known for his book illustrations and portraits. He also worked as a theatre and cinema designer. He captured portraits of Akhmatova, Blok, Meyerhold and Trotsky, Lunacharsky, and Stalin and went from a Russian artist of the Silver Age to a titled French designer. One of a kind of artwork.