My Mother - Painting, Yuri Raksha, USSR -- Daily LIFT #64

My Mother - Painting, Yuri Raksha, USSR -- Daily LIFT #64

Raksha, a working class Soviet artist, was born December 2, 1937 

(He died tragically of leukemia in Moscow in 1980 at age 42)

"Raksha's art, which has elements of both socialist and magic realism to it, is often both powerful and moving."

You can read more about him at: Yuri Raksha, Soviet Artist b. December 2, 1937 w. 12 Prints