Kliment Redko
b. 1897
Kliment Redko (his catalog caption's 'Clement' is a French/anglicized rendering of the Russian first name Kliment) was a Ukrainian-Russian painter associated with Constructivism, Projectionism and Suprematism. Born in Kholm, he trained at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra icon-painting school and later studied under Wassily Kandinsky at the Moscow VKhUTEMAS workshops. Sent to Paris in 1927, he gradually abandoned Constructivism for Salon-style portraiture and landscape, and after his return to the USSR he was expelled from the Union of Artists during Stalin-era purges, dying without official recognition.