Vladimir Lebedev- Untitled (Drawing of Man in Hat)

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  Framed. The sheet has yellowed. The left corner is crinkled, and the right corner is torn. There is a rip in the left middle part of the sheet. Robert Gottlieb Collection2023 - Shchukin Gallery Vladimir Vasilyevich Lebedev (1891-1967) was part of the Russian avant-garde: a painter, a political cartoonist and a poster artist, with an experimental style influenced by Russian folk art, lubki, futurism, constructivism, suprematism, productionism and cubism. Lebedev produced 40 TASS (Telegraphic Agency of the Soviet Union) posters during the course of the war. He was the most prominent of the Petrograd ROSTA Windows collective in the Civil War.A pioneer in the field of children's illustration, he would later acknowledge his role in inventing a new illustrative style, created in the "language of cubism." Lebedev's most important contributions to children's literature were made in the 1920s, and some of his most ground-breaking work was created in collaboration with the poet Samuil Marshak, whom Maxim Gorky called "the founder of Russia's (Soviet) children's literature." Together, they published more than a dozen picture books, on topics both fanciful: Tale About a Foolish Mouse and instructive: How a Plane Made a Plane. Raduga ("The Rainbow"), a renowned Soviet publishing house published most of them. Founded in 1922 by Lev Kliachko, it was shut down by the government in 1930. He was one of the members of the art association ?The Four Arts', which existed in Moscow and Leningrad in 1924-1931. The demise of Raduga coincided with the state's push toward social realism, which forced Lebedev toward a more naturalistic style. By then, however, his reputation was already made. Nowadays, he is still classified as one of the most important Russian and Soviet children's book illustrators. His collaboration with Marshak is also considered among the most innovative in the history of children's literature. Lebedev's illustration can be found in museum collections, including MoMA, New York. 23.25*19.5/ 13.25*9.75 in

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