97. Winter landscape M. Yaffe. Russia 1930s.

Winter landscape The beginning of winter. M. Yaffe. 1930s. Canvas, oil. 95x110 cm Moscow artist Mikhail Yaffe (1894-?). Graduated from the Odessa Art College. Lived and worked in Moscow in the 1930s. The landscape is executed in a realistic style (socialist realism). The name of the work The beginning of winter and the size of the canvas 95x110 are indicated on the reverse side of the painting (the correct size is 85x110 cm). The painting is framed in a gilded relief frame from the first half of the 20th century. On the stretcher there is a sign of the Moscow Art Salon of the Moscow Association of Artists, which was located in Moscow at 11 Kuznetsky Most Street. The registration number of the painting in the salon is N4447 and the sale price is 3900 rubles.

Historical note: The Moscow Association of Artists is a private art association of artists that existed from 1893 to 1924. The basis of the partnership were graduates of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. It included many famous Moscow Russian artists - Arkhipov A.E., Baksheev V.N., Borisov-Musatov V.E., Vinogradov S.A., Vrubel M.A., Zhukovsky S.Yu., Kandinsky V. .V., Korovin K.A., Kuznetsov P.V., Polenov V.D., Saryan M.S., Yuon K.F. and others. The Association organized exhibitions of works by members of the association not only in Moscow, but also in other cities of Russia. At the first stages of the work of the Association, the works of landscape painters and everyday genre dominated. In 1917, the Association had 35 active members.