Ink on paper  by Karlen Rukhikyan, portrait of child, signed in Armenian on the back which has a note to Hrach Khudaverdyan, measures almost 12 x 10 inches, folded.

KARLEN RUKHIKYAN (1927-?), Listed Armenian, Soviet, Social Realist Artist,  graduated from the Terlemezyan College in 1947, and from the Art & Theatric Institute in 1953. References are K.Rukhikyan booklet 1972, Dznuni's Armenian Artists - Concise Dictionary, 1977 and Christie's 20th Century Amenian Pictures, 1999.