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Reuben Mednikoff

1906–1972

December 31, 1937, 8.00pm (Oompah) 1937
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Reuben Mednikoff (1906–1972), was a British surrealist artist.

Mednikoff was born in London in 1906 into a Jewish family of Russian ancestry. He trained at Saint Martin's School of Art.

He was married to Grace Pailthorpe, a surgeon and artist 23 years his senior.

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British Surrealism

Artworks

  • Untitled Drawing

    Reuben Mednikoff
    1936
  • December 31, 1937, 8.00pm (Oompah)

    Reuben Mednikoff
    1937
    On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art

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    Lives of the Artists: Grace Pailthorpe and Reuben Mednikoff

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