Bidspirit auction | Drevin A.D.

Drevin A.D. - Edge of the forest.. Year:  1937 Technique:  Oil on canvas. Size:  54.6x91.6. Descripton:  Signed lower right. Expertize:  Certificate of I.E. Grabar All-Russia Art Scientific Centre of Restoration. Drevin Alexander Davidovich (1899, Wenden - 1938, Moscow). Studied at the Riga Art School with V.E. Purvita. Participant of exhibitions since 1911. He was a member and exhibitor of the artistic associations “Green Flower” (1915), “World of Art” (1919-1922), “Association of Extreme Innovators of Painting” (1919-1922), “Prometheus” (1921), “Jack of Diamonds” (1927), “Moscow Painters” (1925), AHRR (1926), OMH (1928), “Thirteen” (1931), “International Bureau of Revolutionary Artists” (1931-1935). He made several trips to the Urals (1926-1928), Altai and Eastern Kazakhstan (1929-1932), and Armenia (1933-1934). Member of the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences since 1921. He taught at VKHUTEMAS-VKHUTEIN (1920-1930). Personal exhibitions of A.D. Drevina took place in 1928 in Leningrad and in 1934 in Yerevan. Repressed and shot in 1938. Posthumously rehabilitated. Works by A.D. The wood is kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum and many other domestic and foreign museum collections.