MIKHAIL TARKHANOV (RUSSIAN 1888-1962) Three Palms, 1920 pencil on paper 19.5 x 15.2 cm (7 5/8 x 6 in.) titled and dated lower right
PROVENANCE Collection of Ruth and Marvin Sackner
LOT NOTES Mikhail Tarkhanov was a very well known abstract and avant-garde Russian artist. He studied at VKhuTEMAS from 1921-27 under Wassily Kandinsky, Vladimir Favorsky, and Kupriyanov. During the 1920s, Tarkhanov was exhibiting with all of the other major avant-garde artists of the time, including Lissitzky, Malevich, Rodchenko, and more. Supremely talented as an abstractionist, Tarkhanov continued working with exhibition design even after the State chose to exhibit Socialist Realism over Abstractionism starting in the 1930s.