KRAVCHENKO, ALEKSEI (1889-1940) Skier , signed on the reverse. Oil on canvas, 83.5 by 53.5 cm. " Executed in 1928. Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist’s family by the present owner in the late 1980s. Private collection, UK. Exhibited: Aleksei Iliich Kravchenko. 1889–1940. Vystavka k stoletiiu so dnia rozhdeniia, Vystavochnyi zal Soiuza khudozhnikov SSSR, Moscow, 1989. Russian avant-garde, Pa?stwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot, 2012. Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Aleksei Iliich Kravchenko. 1889–1940. Vystavka k stoletiiu so dnia rozhdeniia, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1989, listed. Russian avant-garde, Sopot, Pa?stwowa Galeria Sztuki, 2012, p. 88, illustrated.