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Robert Falk
Russian (1886-1958), O/B, Image: 27 1⁄2" (H) x 19.7" (W) Signed (Att.)

Here is a superb avant-garde nude composition attributed to the Russian artist Rafailovich Robert Falk (1886-1958). Note the command of color to bring brightness and life to the canvas. Falk studied art in Moscow and in 1910 founded the artistic group Jack of Diamonds. The group considered Paul Cezanne the only painter worth following, and the rest of visual art to be too trivial and bourgeois. The distinctive feature of Falk's paintings of the time was sculpturing of the form using many layers of different paints.  In 1928 Falk went on a supposedly short trip to France and refused to return; he worked in Paris until 1938, when he returned to Moscow. After 1938 until his death in 1958 he worked in Moscow, most of the time in isolation. His works of that time were in neo-impressionist style. Provenance: Purchased in 2009 from a private dealer in Eastern Europe.

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