Born 1886, Moscow - Died 1958, Moscow
Painter, theatre designer.
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Work
Lala Falk. 1905. Portrait of Artist's Cousin.
Oil on canvas, 60.3x41.7 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Oil on canvas, 87x94 cm.
Nukus, Art Museum of Karakalpakian Autonomy Republic.
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Portrait of Elizaveta Sergheyevna Potekhina (Artist's Wife). 1910.
Oil on canvas.
Tiumen Province Picture Gallery.
Lisa in an Armchair. (Portrait of the Artist's Wife). 1910.
Oil on canvas, 108x80 cm.
Private collection, St.Petersburg.
Double Portrait Against a Street Background (Family Portrait). 1911.
Oil on canvas. 120x87.5 cm.
Private collection, St.Petersburg
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Portrait of a Woman in Pink. 1914.
Oil on canvas, 108x83 cm.
The Rostov-Yaroslavl State Museum-Preserve.
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Portrait of Midkhad Refatov (Crimea Tatar poet). 1915.
Oil on canvas, 73.7x90.7 cm.
Private collection, Moscow.
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Lady in Red (Elizaveta Sergheyevna Potekhina). 1918.
Oil on canvas, 143x98 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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A Bridge in a Paris Suburb (The Bridge Saint-Clout). 1934.
Oil on canvas, 69.5x86 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
French Landscape (Landscape in Aix). 1932 (1934?).
Oil on canvas, 72.5x90 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Pastel on paper mounted on cardboard, 38x64 cm.
The Peterhof Museum-Preserve, near St.Petersburg.
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Bathing Huts. Brittany. 1930s.
Gouache and watercolor on paper, 32.8x45.2 cm.
Private collection, Moscow.
A Small House by the Sea. Brittany. 1934. Sketch.
Gouache and watercolor on paper, 73x62 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
A Brittany Woman (A Fisherman's Wife). 1934-1935.
Oil on canvas, 92.5x65 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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The Bois de Boulogne in Winter. 1930s.
Watercolor and gouache on paper, 46.6x37.2 cm.
The State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
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Gouache on paper mounted on cardboard, 56.2x39.8 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
A Young Girl with Braids. Before 1939.
Gouache on paper mounted on cardboard, 49.8x41.5 cm.
The Peterhof Museum-Preserve, near St.Petersburg.
Apple Trees in the Forest. 1939.
Watercolor, gouache on paper, 31.5x47.9 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Jasmine in a Glass Jar. 1940s.
Watercolor, gouache, Indian ink, pencil and brush on paper, 62.5x53.8 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
At a Square in Samarqand. 1940s.
Oil on canvas, 61.5x74 cm.
Nukus, Art Museum of Karakalpakian Autonomy Republic.
Resting under the Trees. 1943.
Watercolor, Indian ink on paper, 48x60 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Against a Background of Siuzanee. 1940s.
Oil on canvas, 100x74 cm.
Nukus, Art Museum of Karakalpakian Autonomy Republic.
Oil on canvas, 80x88 cm.
Nukus, Art Museum of Karakalpakian Autonomy Republic.
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Wearing a White Shawl. 1947. Portrait of the Artist's Wife A.Shchiokin-Krotova, translator and teacher.
Oil on canvas, 79x65 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Portrait of Alexandr Gabrichevsky. 1952-1953.
Oil on canvas, 118x109 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Biography:
Robert Rafailovich Falk was one of the most cultured and widely educated people of his time. He was a highly gifted painter, an accomplished piano player, spoke several languages, was a professor of painting, a lecturer on the theory and the history of art. But his major qualities were his spirituality and unbending moral integrity.
The name of Robert Falk is well known around the world, although was practically never mentioned in Russia, until recently. The artist was completely run down in the 40-s and the 50-s. During the "struggle against formalism" and "cosmopolitism" (that's what the anti-Semitic campaign was called back then), Falk has never even attempted to humor the authorities in his art. His work was not exhibited for many years, museums and official organizations wouldn't buy them, and he was denied the opportunity to make a living even as a school teacher for drawing. He would have starved, had it not been for his courageous wife, Angelina Vasilievna Schekin-Krotova, and the occasional sale to private collectors.
Look closely at his last self portrait: all the spiritual complexity, all his heroic persecuted life on the move can be read there on the wise face of this old, weary man, who has never surrendered.
Robert Rafailovich Falk was born in 1886 in Moscow.
He studied in Moscow at the studio of Yuon and Dudin, also at the Mashkov Private School (1904-1905), and the MUZhVS Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Serov and Korovin (1905-1912, with interruption).
From 1906 he took part in exhibitions including World of Art, "The Golden Fleece", Jack of Diamonds, Izdebsky's Salons, AKhRR, OMKh.
Personal exhibitions: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (1924); The Scientists House, Moscow (1927); Zac Gallery, Paris (1929), Gallery Van-Leer, Paris (1937); The Writers House, Moscow (1939); the Central House of Arts Workers, Moscow (1939); exhibition of watercolor and gouache in the Museum of Regional Studies, Samarqand (1943). 1958 - postmortem personal exhibition in MOSKh (Moscow Organization of Soviet Artists).
Falk was a member of the Jack of Diamonds group (1910-1911), of the World of Art group (1917), of the IZO (Fine Art Section of the peoples Commissariat for Education of the Russian Republic, 1918-1921), of the INKhUK (Institute of Artistic Culture, in 1920), of Moscow Painters Society (1925), of the AKhRR (1926-1928).
The artist has married Elizaveta Potekhina (1909), and their son Valery was born in 1916.
In 1910-1911 the artist traveled to Italy.
In 1918-1921 he worked in Moscow Collegian of arts and artistic industry of NARCOMPROS (Peoples Commissariat for Education). Falk designed many plays for theatres of Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Minsk (1922-1941).
Then he married Kira Alexeyeva, K.Stanislavsky's daughter (1920-1922). Their daughter, Kirilla Falk (Baranovskaya by marriage) was born in 1921.
Falk served as a professor of painting at the VKhUTEMAS/VKhUTEIN (High State Artistic and Technical Workshops / High State Art Technical Institute) in 1918-1928, as the decan of the faculty of painting; during the time of World War II - at the Art College in Samarqand (1941-1942), and at the Moscow Institute of Decorative Art (1945-1952).
From 1928 till 1937, Falk has lived and worked in France. In 1930 he has visited Berlin.
After his return from Paris, the artist once again lived and worked in Moscow. In 1939 he met his last wife, Angelina Shchiokin-Krotova, a linguist, translator and teacher. In the years of the World War II (1941-1943) they have been evacuated to Bashkiria (Sterlibashevo) and later to Samarqand (Central Asia).
In 1943 Valery Falk was killed at the Stalingrad front.
After he has return again to Moscow in 1943, and until 1956, Falk was only able to design 3 plays for Moscow theatres. He has had no other commissions. He was forgotten. But he has lived and worked on his paintings till the last day of his life.
In October 1958 the artist died in Moscow, the age of 72.





































































