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Rotislaw Racoff Art

Polish, 1904-1982
Rotislaw Racoff (1904 - 1982) Rotislaw Racoff is a painter and watercolorist, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1904 (On Artnet he is given to be born in Poland ?). After the Russian revolution of 1917, he lived in northern China. In 1929 he moved to Paris. He studied at the Faculty of Law, University of Paris. From the 1930s he worked as a decorator in cinema and painted pictures in the spirit of naive art. In 1946 he held a solo exhibition in the Paris gallery, Drouin. He participated in the Paris Salons Super-independent (1945, 1948) and Comparisons (1955-1959). In 1961, he showed his work at the exhibition "Russian artists of the Paris School." In 1982, works were exhibited in the Salon of the Independent in Paris. He specialized in flower paintings and atmospheric scenes of Paris, empty streets and corners, and oblique views of the Seine. All these spellings can be found for this artist: First name: Rastilaw / Ratislav / Rotislaw / Ratislaw / Rotasilan / Rastislaw Last name: Raccoff / Racoff / Rakoff / Racov
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Artist: Rotislaw Racoff
Female Nude Study Watercolor Drawing by Rotislaw Racoff
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1940s nude study, watercolor, and ink on paper painting by Polish/Russian artist Rotislaw Racoff (1904 - 1982). This is a fine study of a young woman, probably Asian, sitting back. T...
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1940s Expressionist Rotislaw Racoff Art

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

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