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| Oscar Rabine, Black Cat, 1961, Oil on canvas, 39.25 x 31.5 in |
| Painter and graphic artist, and one of the organizers of the nonconformist movement in Russia. Was born in 1928 in Moscow. From 1946 to 1948, he studied at the Riga Academy of Arts, and from 1948 to 1949 at Moscow’s Surikov State Art Institute, from which he was expelled for “formalism.” Rabin’s professional and moral development was strongly influenced by his father-in-law, the artist and poet Evgeny. Kropivnitsky. Rabine was a leading figure in the “Lianozovo Group”. In June 1978, he was forced to emigrate from the USSR and was deprived of his citizenship “for behavior discreditable to the title of Soviet artist.” He now lives and works in Paris. He has participated in and initiated numerous exhibitions and political actions by independent artists. |
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His works can be found in the collections of the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Tretyakov State Gallery and Pushkin Museum (Moscow), Jane Voorheese Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, USA) and Dina Vierny Foundation (Paris, France). Following is a list of just a few solo exhibitions:
1965 – Grosvenor Galery, London, England; 1977 – Galerie Jaquester, Paris, France; 1982 – Galerie Holst Halversens, Oslo, Norway; 1984 – Museum of Modern Russian Art, Jersey City, USA 1984 – Galerie Marie-Therese Cochin, Paris, France; 1985 – Gallery Holst Halversens, Oslo, Norway; 1993 – The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; 2001 – Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York, USA.
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