Andrei Ivanovitch Plotnov, Russian, Soviet, 1916 to 1997, sketch oil painting on canvas, Amateur Performance, depicting a concert stage scene with Russian dancers, 1948. Framed. Signed, titled and dated on the backside. Additionally inscribed in Cyrillic, As a Gift to a Friend in Memory of the Troubled Youth, and dated, May 19, 1994, on the backside. Platonov Andrey Ivanovich was a Soviet and Russian painter and graphic artist, war artist of the Studio at the Main Political Directorate of the Border Troops, member of the Studio of War Artists, and member of the Moscow Union of Artists. A prominent representative of Soviet art, public figure, propagandist of folk art, as well as Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1968), holder of the Order of the Badge of Honor, honorary citizen of the city of Dankov. One of a kind artwork.