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SOLOMON SAMSONOVICH BOIM (RUSSIAN 1899-1978) Moscow at Night, 1963 watercolor on paper 44.5 x 60 cm (17 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.) initialed and dated lower right, signed and titled on verso
PROVENANCE Acquired from the estate of the artist
LOT NOTES Solomon Boim is known mostly for his works in graphic techniques: watercolor, gouache, drawing, engraving, and posters (Agitplakat). From 1926 on he participated in hundreds of exhibitions at home and abroad. Boim studied at Vkhutemas (the famous school of Russian Avant-garde art which later became Vkhutein) from 1922 through 1929, under such prominent Russian artists as Nikolay Kupreyanov and Piotr Lvov.