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Feinberg L.E. - Two girls.. Year:  1929 Technique:  Paper, ink. Size:  54x40. Descripton:  Signature top right. Feinberg Leonid Evgenievich (1896, Moscow -1980, Moscow). An outstanding Russian Soviet graphic artist, he was engaged in monumental art and book design. In the 1910s studied in the studios of S.Yu. Zhukovsky and F.I. Rerberg in Moscow. Participated in exhibitions of the Union of Russian Artists in 1923. Illustrated “Hero of Our Time” by M.Yu. Lermontov (1941-1945), novels by H. Wells, poetry by A. Navoi and A. Nizami. Friend of Maximilian Voloshin. Author of memoirs about M.I. Tsvetaeva “Three summers visiting Maximilian Voloshin”, books “Glaze and technique of classical painting”, “Secrets of painting of the old masters”. Participant of all-Union exhibitions. He had personal exhibitions, including at the Moscow Union of Artists in 1956. Works by L.E. Feinberg are in the State Literary Museum, in the museums of M.Yu. Lermontov in Pyatigorsk and Tarkhany.