Bidspirit auction | Rabin O.Ya.

Rabin O.Ya. - Pink rags and flowers.. Year:  2003. Technique:  Oil on canvas, collage. Size:  65х90. Descripton:  Signed and dated on the back. Rabin Oscar Yakovlevich (1928, Moscow - 2018). The artist’s first teacher was the artist and poet E.L. Kropivnitsky. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Riga (1946-1948), at the Moscow State Art Institute. V.I. Surikov, from where he was expelled “for formalism.” The artist’s formation was greatly influenced by his acquaintance with Western artists at an exhibition as part of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow (1957). In the 1950s. Rabin became a prominent figure in the “Lianozov group” of poets and artists united around E.L. Kropivnitsky. He is considered one of the founders of the “barracks school, ” a nonconformist movement that emphasizes the poverty and hopelessness of Soviet life. He was one of the organizers of the “bulldozer exhibition” in 1974. In 1978, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Oscar Rabin was deprived of Soviet citizenship and has since lived in Paris, working in his own workshop at the Art Center. Pompidou. Currently, Rabin is one of the best-selling Soviet nonconformist artists at world auctions; he exhibits in New York, Paris, Oslo, Vienna, and London. In 1991, a personal exhibition of the artist took place at the Literary Museum in Moscow. His works are present in the permanent exhibitions of the State Tretyakov Gallery and the State Russian Museum, and are located in many museums of modern art around the world.