MEIER AKSELROD [AXELROD] (1902 - 1970) Seated nude

Lotto 177

4 0005 000

signed in Cyrillic and dated ‘M. Axelrod 68’ (lower right) oil on board 61 x 45.8 cm executed in 1968 Meier Akselrod was a Belarussian artist, graphic designer, painter, member of the '4 Arts'artistic union and representative of the avant-garde school alongside Chagall and Malevich. He was censured in Soviet newspapers for his expressionism and even the resemblance of his works to those of Modigliani. At the outbreak of war in 1941, he was invited by Sergei Eisenstein to join the film crew of 'Ivan the Terrible’. Meier Akselrod's works are held in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.

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