Bidspirit auction | Michail Grobman (Israeli - Russian,

Michail Grobman (Israeli - Russian, 1939-2025) - Landscape with Butterflies and Insects, 1967, Silkscreen, 50 x 65 cm, Hand-signed and numbered ”16/85”, Signed and dated in the plate. Executed during Grobman’s pivotal Moscow period, this graphic composition reflects the aesthetic style he developed in the late 1960s. Between 1966 and 1968, his drawings were regularly featured in the influential Soviet publication Znanie-Sila (Russian: Знание-Сила, Knowledge is Power), a key platform for Soviet Nonconformist artists, including Ülo Sooster, Anatoly Brusilovsky, Dmitry Lion, Viktor Zuykov, Nikolai Grishin, and Mikhail Romadin. Under liberal art direction in the mid-to-late 1960s, Znanie-Sila became renowned for granting avant-garde illustrators remarkable freedom to experiment with surrealism, conceptual linework, primitivism, and cosmic symbolism—often under the guise of illustrating scientific, historical, or futuristic subjects.