Vladimir Vasilievich Lebedev, Russian, Soviet era, 1891 to 1967, mixed media, gouache and ink, painting on paper depicting an Avant garde sailor male costume design. Signed with initials, lower right. Vladimir Vasilyevich Lebedev, a Russian and Soviet Avant Garde painter, poster and graphic artist, book and magazine illustrator, founder of the Leningrad school of book graphics. Peoples Artist of the RSFSR, 1966, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts, 1967. One of a kind artwork.