Samuel Rubashkin "Life"
 

Samuel Rubashkin "Life »

Oil on cardboard.
In frame.
Dimensions: 65 x 86 cm
Year of creation : 1969 .
Signed in the lower right -hand corner.
On the reverse side the inscription: SY Rubashkin "Life" in '69

Place the picture : Turku (Finland ) .

Price: 4000 €

Provenance :
- The painting was purchased by me at the end of the 1980s in Moscow, the widow of the artist - actress Irina Alexandrovna Mesnyankin
- In the early 1990s, the picture has been taken me abroad : on the back of the stamp « The Ministry of Culture of the USSR . Allowed to be exported from the Soviet Union ».

About Samuel Yakovlevich Rubashkin ( 1906 - 1,975 ):
http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/operator/sov/21433/bio
http://www.museum-s.info/rubashkin.php
http://artru.info/ar/12772/
http://www.thebergenmuseum.com/russian_exhibit.htm

Notes :
- It is possible that this is a portrait of the artist and his wife (there is a portrait likeness )
- Reproduction of a painting by Samuel Rubashkin , see page 32 of the book «From Gulag to Glasnost. Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union »(The Norton and Nancy Dodge collection)
- In a foreign catalog (sorry , can not remember his name ), I took a picture of a reproduction of a painting (photo «Unknown catalog.jpg» and «Unknown catalog1.jpg»).

2500 euro.

1900 Euro. Will consider offers.