ISAAC IZRAILEVICH BRODSKY (1883-1939)
Night in a lacustry landscape (Night Motive)
Lot 32
15 00020 000
signed and dated '1915' (lower left) and inscribed in Cyrillic “Night Motive” on the reverse
Oil on panel
21 x 32 cm
executed in 1915
Provenance: private collection, Monaco
Brodsky was a Soviet-Jewish painter and plastic artist, born in the Russian Empire in Sofiyevka and died in Leningrad. A socialist realism painter, also made portrait of Lenin, Stalin and Gorky. His paintings feature Russian Civil War and the Bolshevik Revolution.
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg. After graduating, he was awarded a travel scholarship that allowed him to visit many European countries. He was fascinated with Spanish Old Masters, French Symbolists and Impressionists, and by the works by the Italian Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899).
His works were exposed in several exhibitions and museums, including the Royal Academy of Arts and the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art.