Oscar RABINE (1928-2018)
Nativity at Montmartre
Oil on canvas
Signed lower center and dated 1986
Titled in Russian, dated 1986 on the back
65 x 91 cm
Provenance :
Neuilly, Ionesco sale, April 1991, n°250
"I am Russian and I remain Russian, all my culture is Russian, my soul is Russian and even when I paint Paris, we see Russia in my paintings", Oscar Rabine.
Oscar Rabine attended Soviet art schools and the very classical Surikov Institute in Moscow, from which he was expelled in 1949 because of his taste for abstraction. Like many artists, Rabin abandoned art during the Stalinist period and did not devote himself to painting until 1958, when he created the Lianosovo Group of underground artists. A true leader of artists committed to freedom of expression, he organised the famous non-conformist open-air art exhibition in Moscow in 1974, which was destroyed by bulldozers because it had not been subjected to censorship by the authorities. Expelled, he took refuge in France, painted Paris, Provence and Corsica. His art combines his taste and his Slavic culture of birth with the Western art he adored, here, a cubist construction associated with a traditional image of the Nativity.
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