SOLOMON BOIM (RUSSIAN 1899-1978) 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.