Georgy Rublev
1902-1975

The ‘Soviet Matisse’ was born in Lipetsk, near Moscow. He studied in the town’s Free Art Studios between 1919 and 1922, and at the Higher Technical workshops in Moscow between 1922 and 1930 under Sergei Gerasimov, Ilya Mashkov and Pyotr Konchalovsky. Despite these years of study, Rublev was essentially self-taught, citing as major influences Modigliani (whose work he encountered at an exhibition in Moscow in 1922) and Pirosmani, the Georgian naïve painter. Rublev’s work of the 1930s is unlike any other in the Soviet canon, and his 1935 portrait of Stalin reading Pravda is one of the most famous non-objective images of the dictator ever painted. >> Read more

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