Продано: Selling the work of Eugene Rukhin

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Selling the work of Eugene Rukhin, 1972, 50h40sm, oil on cardboard, sm.tehnika.

Rukhin Feinberg (1943-76), painter. One of the leaders of the Leningrad "unofficial art" while party DOS. Moscow shares the "informal" (including the "Bulldozer Exhibition", 1974). Created in the spirit of pop art painting compositions incorporating fragments of real objects. He went into the initiative group for organizing exhibitions in the Palace of Culture. Strip and the "Nevsky" (1974-1975), as well as exhibitions in the student club "Eureka" (1976). Solo exhibition was held in youth clubs in Leningrad (1966-1967), the same was the first overseas exhibition in New York (1967). Subsequently, it was organized over 80 exhibitions postmortem E. Rukhin in America, Europe, Japan and Israel. Exhibitions of his work with the Tretyakov Gallery and the Hermitage were only in the flowering of perestroika, when the artist for more than 10 years was dead. Among the main directions in which the artist worked Yevgeny Rukhin, made to celebrate Russian mysticism and symbolism. His paintings are very diverse, but they often give out a special composition and brushwork. This is a gray, brown, dirty yellow color ¬, free stroke, abstraction. In early works Rukhin dominated landscape composition, made in unusual colors. In later works, feels a strong influence of symbolism, there live the mysterious numbers and punctuation. After a trip to northern Russia in 1970 ¬ ies in the artist's landscapes have appeared with churches and other religious themes (a composite of recurrent findings - a stylized icon with transforming the image of Our Lady). The joy of life in the paintings of the master is rare, there prevails tense and gloomy tone of the puzzle. The objects of still life composition Rukhin often played instruments.
Eugene Rukhin died in '33 under mysterious circumstances while fighting a fire in his studio.