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Robert Falk (Russian 1886-1958) OOC Still Life

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Robert Falk (Russian 1886-1958) OOC Still Life
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Oil on canvas, still life painting of a vase in front of a mirror. Signed and attr. to Robert Falk (1886-1958). Signature on lower right corner. In 1910, Falk was of the founders and the most active participants of artistic group Jack of Diamonds. The group considered Paul Cézanne 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.During the Khrushchev Thaw Falk became popular among young painters and many considered him to be the main bridge between the traditions of the Russian and French Modern of the beginning of 20th century and Russian avant-garde and the Russian avant-garde of the 1960s. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario Estate. 9.5 x 7.5 in