Description:

Soviet Avant-Garde Painter: Rabinovich Rosalia Moiseevna (1895, Kiev – 1988, Moscow)

Avant-Garde Painting for Soviet posters 

Aeroplan+Parachute 1933

Material: paper, gouache, metallic paint

Technique of painting: combined

Dimensions: 580 * 400

The first signed and inscribed in Cyrillic and dated 1933 (lower right) 

Rosalia Rabinovich, 1895 (Kiev) – 1988 (Moscow)
She was a painter, graphic artist, scenic designer, and she also worked in the applied and decorative arts.
She was the sister of I.M. Rabinovich, the artist and scenic designer.
Studied at the A.A. Murashko Drawing School in Kiev (1912-1916) and A.A. Ekster’s studio of decorative arts (1918-1919).
Joined a group of radical artists and writers – the Literary Club of Artists, Writers, Performers, and Musicians – at the end of 1910.
Moved to Moscow in 1919. First, she studied at A. Osmerkin and D. Scherbinovsky’s state-run art studios and then at Higher Art and Technical Studios at R. Falk’s studio (1920-1925), graduating the latter with the title of ‘First Class Painter’. She painted landscapes of Moscow and the Moscow suburbs, portraits, and other landscapes and made posters and industrial art, showing her work at exhibitions hosted by the Moscow Painters’ Society (1925), ROST (1928), and other institutions.
Joined ROST in 1928.
Member and advocate of the Society of Socially Active Artists (1928-1930). Started working at a hand painted fabrics factory in 1929.
Started teaching theater design at the A. S. Bubnov Central House of Children’s Art in 1933. The dolls and costumes her students made for Alexander Pushkin’s 100th birthday garnered top prizes at an international exhibition in Paris and at a world exhibition in New York.
Was the theater designer for a few plays, directed by B. Nord, at the Central State Youth Theater.
Worked as an artist at a theater in Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) from 1940 through 1943.
Had solo exhibitions in Moscow (1963) and Klin (1977).
In 2006, there was a retrospective of her work in Kiev.
Rabinovich’s art works are displayed at many museums, including the Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, Nukus Museum of Art, State Museum-Reserve Schelykovo, as well as at galleries in Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, Donetsk, Klin, the New Jerusalem, Omsk, Tbilisi, and Chelyabinsk.