"The Jesus cries » by Oskar Yakovlevich Rabin. - 1957 - Paper, watercolor, parget.

"The Jesus cries » by Oskar Yakovlevich Rabin. - 1957 - Paper, watercolor, parget.
"The Jesus cries » by Oskar Yakovlevich Rabin. - 1957 - Paper, watercolor, parget.

Size, 53X35.5 cm. From the front endowment inscription in pencil: On the birthday from Oscar and Vali 1957. On the front side, signature and date. 

Conservation is satisfactory: uneven edges of the sheet cut, traces of surface contamination from the back, sheet in several places with a view to fortifications with a backing are glued with writing paper, creases, tears, creases and local breakouts in the inscription area, pinpoint tears of paper. 

RABIN OSKAR YAKOVLEVICH (1928, MOSCOW - 2018). The artist's first teacher was the artist and poet, Evgeny Leonidovich Kropyvnytsky. He had been studying at Art Academy of Latvia in Riga from 1946 till 1948, at Moscow Art Theater named after V.I. Surikova. from where he was expelled "for formalism." A great influence on the formation of the artist was made by acquaintance with Western artists at the exhibition as part of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow (1957). 

In the 1950s Rabin became a prominent figure of the "Lianozovo group" of poets and artists, united around Evgeny Leonidovich Kropyvnytsky. He is considered one of the founders of the "barracks school" of a non-conformist trend, emphasizing the poverty and hopelessness of Soviet life. He acted as 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 been living in Paris, working in his own workshop at the Center for the Arts. Pompidou. Currently, Rabin is one of the best-selling non-conformist artists at world auctions, exhibited in New York, Paris, Oslo, Vienna and London. In 1991, a personal exhibition of the artist was held at the Literary Museum in Moscow. His works are present in the permanent exhibitions of the State Tretyakov Gallery and the State Russian Museum, are in many contemporary art museums around the world.