OSCAR RABINE

Oscar Iakovlevitch Rabin (Russian: Оскар Яковлевич Рабин), born on January 2, 1928 in Moscow and died on November 7, 2018 in Florence, is a Soviet painter then French and finally Russian.

He is one of the founders of a group of informal art Lianozovo.

From 1946 to 1948, Oscar Rabin studied at the Riga Academy of Arts. In 1948-1949, he studied at the Vasily Sourikov Art Institute in Moscow from where he was expelled for formalism.

In the late 1950s, with his wife painter Valentina Kropiwnicki, he became the founder of the informal art group Lianozovo.

In the spring of 1974, Rabin was the initiator and one of the main organisers of the exhibition of works by non-conformist artists in Belyayevo, the Bulldozer Exhibition.

In 1978, during a trip to France, he was refused Soviet citizenship by a special decree of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

In 1985, he acquired French nationality. In 1990, Perestroika re-established its right to Russian citizenship. In 2006, the Russian ambassador of France returned his Russian passport.

In 2007, he exhibited his works at the Pushkin Museum.

He is buried next to his son and his first wife at Père-Lachaise cemetery.