Keywords: horse and rider, equestrian, Russian avant garde style, geometric composition, modernist, expressionist, dynamic movement, signed, oil on cardboard, figural, green palette

Summary:
Wonderful Signed futurist cubist oil on cardboard painting depicting a fragmented horse and rider in motion, deconstructing the scene into geometric shapes and analyzing them from multiple viewpoints simultaneously. Signed lower left. Housed in a black frame.

NOTE: Decades of suppression under Stalin and the promotion of official Socialist Realism forced many to hide abstract, futurist, cubist, and avant guarde works. They were brought out of the country by those who could or put into secret storage. Many of the early abstract and futurist works that are found, no longer have documentation, history and are without clear paper trails. As they are exhibited or brought to market we see the "experts" argue with each other. As far as we know However, since dont know who the artist of this excellent work might have been, it is above challenge..

(Presents well with age-related wear, expected surface wear, scattered abrasions, and some areas of rubbing visible throughout. Frame with scattered wear, chips, and losses.)

Measurement: Art: 24 x 32 in. (61 x 81.3 cm.), Frame: 27 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (69.9 x 90.2 cm.) approx

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