Mixed media. Signed. Dated: 1931.

55 x 39 cm. 70 x 50 cm.

Figure of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, alias Moliére, 1622 Paris - 1673 Paris, actor, theater director and playwright. Numbered on label at front. Mounted, without frame. Side down a restored tear.

Dobuzinsky, painter and illustrator. Studied at the drawing school of the Society for the Promotion of the Arts in St. Petersburg. 1899-1901 with Anton Azbe in Munich. In 1902, member of the Mir Iskusstva artists' association. 1922 Professor at the Academy in St. Petersburg. From 1924 worked at various theaters in Lithuania. From 1939 resident in the USA * partner auction Bergmann.