Andrei Andreevich Mylnikov, Russian, Soviet, 1919 to 2012, watercolor and gouache painting on board depicting a scene with Vladimir Lenin, 1946. Signed with initials lower left. Inscribed with a monogram to the center left. Additionally signed and dated on the backside. Provenance: Studio of Igor Grabar. Marked and stamped with a paper label on the backside. Andrei Andreevich Mylnikov was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator, Peoples Artist of the Russian Federation, Stalin Prize winner, and Lenin Prize winner, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, former Leningrad Union of Artists, and professor of painting of the Repin Institute of Arts, regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Soviet art, who played an important role in the formation of the Leningrad school of painting. One of a kind artwork.