An oil painting on canvas depicting a self portrait in a studio by Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov, Russian, Soviet era, 1881 to 1944. Signed lower left. Framed. Additionally inscribed, on the backside. Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov was a Russian and Soviet artist, one of the founders and a member of the art association Bubnovyy Valet Jack of Diamonds 1910 and the Society of Moscow Artists, 1927 to 1929, was a member of the associations World of Art from 1916 and the society Moscow Painters from 1925, in the period 1924 to 1928 a member Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, Honored Artist of the RSFSR 1928. He studied at the Moscow college under Korovin, Sreov, Arkhipov and Pasternak, 1900 to1909 but he also taught at a private studio from 1905. He traveled widely visiting Turkey, Egypt, Spain, Germany, Italy and Britain. He became a portrait and still-life painter of extraordinary fluency and strength of color. He was included in museum and gallery shows all over the Soviet Union, winner of numerous prizes and a member of many Russian art organizations. Russian Soviet Era Fine Art, Portrait and Interior Paintings, Wall Art, and Collectibles. One of a kind artwork.