Still Life with Lemon

Mikhail Zakharyevich Rudakov was an artist whose work spanned styles from realism to abstraction and minimalism. He graduated from the Kharkiv Art and Industry Institute. In 1943, he was repressed and spent five years in the Vorkuta labor camps, where he continued to create art. He was rehabilitated in 1957. In Moscow, he worked as a book illustrator, creating cycles for the works of A. Blok, F. Villon, and S. Maugham. In the 1960s, he focused on painting, producing metaphorical series on war and camp life, as well as landscapes and portraits filled with a life-affirming spirit.