Signed Robert Falk (1886-1958) Technique: Oil on board. Measurements: 44x42 cm Title: Still life Signed: lower right edgeProvenance: Private CollectionBiography:Robert Raphaelovich Falk 1886-1958 (attributed).Falk was born in Moscow in 1886. From 1903 to 1904 he studied art at the studios of Konstantin Yuon and Ilya Mashkov, from 1905 to 1909 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov. In 1910 Falk was one of the founders and most active participants in the Jack of Diamonds art group. The group considered Paul Cézanne the only painter worth following, and the rest of the visual arts too trivial and bourgeois. The distinctive feature of Falk's paintings of the period was the sculpting of the form using many layers of different paints. After 1938, until his death in 1958, he worked in Moscow, most of the time in isolation. His works from that time were in a Neo-Impressionist style with characteristic white-on-white colors (not unlike the later paintings of his teacher Valentin Serov). During the Khrushchev thaw, Falk became popular with young painters and was considered by many to be the main bridge between the early 20th-century traditions of Russian and French modernism and the Russian avant-garde and Russian avant-garde of the 1960s. numerous paintings by Falk in the Tretyakov Museum of New Art in Moscow.

This is in very good condition with age appropriate wear.