Roberto Falk (1886, Moscow, Russia- 1958, Moscow, Russia)Title: Female NudeTechnique: Pencil drawing on paper.Measurements: 18 x 30 cmSigned: Lower right side R.F 1930Provenance: Private collectionBiography:Falk was born in Moscow in 1886. From 1903 to 1904 he studied art in 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 to be the only painter worth following and considered the rest of visual art to be too trivial and bourgeois. The distinctive feature of Falk's paintings of the period was the sculpture formed from many layers of different paints.Robert Falk, Still Life: Bottles and Jug. 1912In 1918-1928, Falk taught at VKhUTEMAS (Higher State Artistic and Technical Workshops). In 1928, Falk made a supposedly short trip to France and refused to return; He worked in Paris until 1938, when he returned to Moscow.After 1938 and until his death in 1958 he worked in Moscow, most of the time in isolation. His works from that time were in the 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 among young painters and was considered by many to be the main bridge between the traditions of Russian and French modernism of the early 20th century and the Russian avant-garde and avant-garde of the 1960s.There are numerous paintings by Falk in the New Tretyakov Art Museum in Moscow.

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