Oskar Rabin, Painter Who Defied And Critiqued The Soviet State, Has Died At 90

In 1974, Rabin organized a show of dissident artists that was broken up by dump trucks and bulldozers – and that caused an international backlash. “In 1978 officials encouraged him to make a trip to Paris; while he was there they stripped him of his citizenship. He lived in Paris the rest of his life, even though he became celebrated in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.”