Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Oskar Rabine NPG x132731

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ida Kar

Oskar Rabine trained at the studio of Russian painter and poet Evgeny Kropivnitsky. In 1950 Rabine married Valentina Kropivnitskaya, his teacher's daughter, and settled in Lianozov, Moscow where their son Alexandre was born. Rabine was a founding member of the Lianozovo Group that brought together non-conformist artists whose art did not follow the official socialist-realist style. Banned from exhibiting by the Russian authorities, he was the first unofficial artist to have a one-man show in the west (Grosvenor Gallery London, 1964). In 1978 Rabine... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.