A group of four paintings depicting Soviet musical education
1956
each gouache on paper
each 53 x 69 cm (21 x 28 in.)
each signed or monogrammed in the lower margins
LOT NOTES
Solomon Boim, a Soviet artist of Jewish origin, 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.