Railway, 1922, 1922
Expert Reports: - The State Tretiakov Gallery report and comparison analysis #K 2297/9 dated 06.06.2004, by the chief of the department of scientific work, Lidia I. Gladkova and Maria V. Valieva, the leading specialist of the depart- ment of paintings from the 2nd part of XIX c – 1st part of XX c. (two pages) - Chemical-technological analysis carried out by the deputy chief of the department of scientific examination of the State Tretiakov Gallery, PhD. E. A. Lubayskaya. Provenance: -Until 1968: kept in the house of Galina V. Kuibysheva -1968: Purchased from above by Vasily M. Shchukin -1978: Private Collection, Paris-Tallinn Notes: Adlivankin’s work The Tram is kept at the State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia The Tram, 1922 Publications: - Catalogue to the exhibition “The Seasons of Russian Aristocracy”, 2006 Exhibitions: - 2007 – National Art Collections Foundation (9 Vetoshny Lane, Moscow) - 2006 – “The Seasons of Russian Aristocracy” (Estate Usovo, Rublievka, Moscow District) Biography: Samuil Yakovlevitch Adlivankin represented “the left wing” of the Russian Soviet art movement in the twen- ties and thirties. He was the founder of New Painters’ Community (1921-22), worked for the Left Front (LEF) and Izobrigade (1932). He was a painter and graphic artist. He decorated books and films, wrote banners, painted portraits, genre scenes, and landscapes. Stylistically, he was close to primitive and folk art. He graduated from Odessa Art College (1912 to 1917) and continued his education at the Free State Art Studios in Moscow under Tatlin. He worked in different stylistic manners, including cinema of the 1920- 1930s, as well as political and magazine graphics. He worked together with Mayakovsky. The 1920-1930s was