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oil on canvas, signed and dated 1943 lower right, in good condition, with some minor repairs, dimensions frame 79x69 cm, without frame 60x50 cm, provenance private collection in Amsterdam. Rostislas Loukine or Rostislas Lukin (in Russian: Ростислаc Владимирович Лукин, Rostislas Vladimirovitch Loukine), born July 29, 1904 in Belgorod and died December 14, 1988 in Bar-sur-Aube, is a Russian painter who emigrated to Paris and then to Brussels.
A small piece of the Russian soul of Rostislav Loukine (1904-1988) still lives on in Arsonval, which has a museum dedicated to the painter who was Russian by birth, Belgian by nationality but French by heart, as he liked to say. Loukine's work is populated with great sacred figures and icons, scenes from traditional Russian stories and legends, portraits such as Bachelard's, still lifes and landscapes. Oil on canvas, gouaches and watercolors in small or monumental format – fifty in all – adorn the three rooms of the museum dedicated to him by the small municipality of Arsonval.