DRAWING]. SOLOMKO (Sergueï)]. - Lot 240

DRAWING]. SOLOMKO (Sergueï)]. Russian Military in Marseille in 1916 Watercolor on paper, framed drawing France, Marseille, dated 1916 Dimensions : 115 x 175 mm Sergueï Solomko is a Russian illustrator, graphic designer and watercolorist who lived partly in France. During the First World War, he illustrated patriotic postcards, the most famous of which are a postcard representing Joan of Arc throwing a firm "go away" to a German soldier, and another representing William II dragging himself behind Christ who turns away from him. In 1916, he worked on a project for the Commission for the Conservation of War Trophies and Memorials for the foundation of a museum of the Great War, which was not even finished yet. In the months before the revolution of 1917, the commission asked him to paint portraits of members of the Russian Expeditionary Corps in France, as in the present watercolour.