The Russian Academy Of Arts

Oscar Rabin Was Presented With the Order of the Russian Academy of Arts “For Services to Art”

On February 25, 2013 at the residence of the Russian Ambassador to France in Paris the President of the Russian Academy of Arts presented the Russian artist Oscar Rabin with the Order “For Services to Art”.

Works by Oscar Rabin are in museum collections in many countries, but as the master puts it: “Recognition in the homeland is the most important”. Oscar Rabin was born in 1928 in Moscow. He is one of the founders of Lianozovo informal art group, a participant and organizer of the underground “Bulldozer Exhibition” in 1974. In 1978 through the edict of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet he was deprived of the Soviet citizenship and exiled abroad. Oscar Rabin lives and works in Paris. The Soviet citizenship was returned to the artist in 1990.

 

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