Ruvim Matskin Izrailevich, Post Soviet Ukrainian Russian Jewish Oil Painting Shabbat Candles Judaic Prayers, 1991

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Matskin Ruvim Izrailevich (Russian / Israeli, 1926-1996) - Sabbath Prayer Oil on Canvas 1991 Hand signed in Cyrillic 36 X … Read more Matskin Ruvim Izrailevich (Russian / Israeli, 1926-1996) - Sabbath Prayer Oil on Canvas 1991 Hand signed in Cyrillic 36 X 32 inches (90x80cm) Rare judaica by a Soviet realist artist. Ruvim Izrailevich Matskin was born in 1926 in Kryvy (Ukraine). In 1955 he graduated from Kharkov State Art School, and in 1970 joined the Kharkov Artists’ Union. Since 1963 he worked at the Industrial Art dep. of the UkraSSR Art Fund. In the late 1880s he and his family moved to Israel. Matskin passed away in 2002. Took part in numerous exhibitions of fine art in the USSR Select Exhibitions Behind the Iron Curtain. The Art of Socialist Realism 20 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-2009, Berlino 2009 Guardando all'URSS. Realismo socialista in Italia dal mito al mercato, Fruttiere di Palazzo Te, Mantova 2015 World Exposition, Milano 2015 The exhibition was held at the Jeschke-Van Vliet gallery in Berlin, which was located in the former Berlin Wall zone, adding a layer of symbolic resonance to the project artists included Askhat Gazizulinovich Safargalin, Petr Ivanovich Kostinsky, Vyacheslav Vasilevich Tokarev, Boris Eremeevich Vladimirski, Alexander Deyneka His most well-known work was the monumental revolutionary "The Defence of Petrograd" from 1928. His mosaics cover the ceiling of Mayakovskaya Metro station in Moscow. Yuri Pimenov A founder member of the Society of Easel Painters, he was well known for documenting Moscow's changes from the 1930s to the 60s, as in his 1937 painting "New Moscow". Geli Korzhev and Yablonska Olena Nylivna Bibliografia: Behind the Iron Curtain. The Art of Socialist Realism 20 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-2009, catalogo della mostra a cura di A.L. Coruzzi, H. Bayati, Milano 2009, p. 87, n. 115 Guardando all'URSS. Realismo socialista in Italia dal mito al mercato, catalogo della mostra a cura di V. Strukelj, F. Zanella, I. Bignotti, Ginevra-Milano 2015, p. 237, n. 17 He was part of a tradition of Soviet Jewish artists that included El Lissitzky, and Natan Altman, Marc Chagall, Robert Falk, Anatoly Kaplan, Ilya Kabakov, Mikhail Grobman, Oscar Rabin, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Alexander Tyshler and Grisha Bruskin. See less