Anatoly Kaplan. sheet 60.5x45 cm, lithograph, unsigned, not dated, well preserved.

Anatoly Kaplan. sheet 60.5x45 cm, lithograph, unsigned, not dated, well preserved.
Anatoly (Tankhum) Lvovich Kaplan (1903-1980).

In 1922 he entered the painting faculty of VKHUTEMAS. Among his teachers were A. A. Rylov, K. S. Petrov-Vodkin, N. E. Radlov. In the second half of the 1930s, under the leadership of GS Vereisky, he mastered the technique of lithography in the experimental workshop of the Leningrad Union of Artists. From 1939 he took part in collective exhibitions. After the war, he served as the chief artist of the Leningrad Art Glass Factory (1948-1950). In the 1950s - 1960s, he created several easel illustrations based on classical Jewish literature. At the turn of the 1950s - 1960s, he developed the so-called "folklore cycles". In 1961, the artist's first solo exhibition took place at the Grosvenor Gallery in London. It was followed by a number of exhibitions in private galleries and museums in Europe, in particular in the Tel Aviv City Museum (1962) and the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig (1967). In 1966 he took part in the Venice Biennale of Arts.

Works are in many museum collections around the world, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, the State Hermitage, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Vatican Museums in Rome, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.