(b Moscow, 8 Nov 1886; d Moscow, 1 Oct 1958). Russian painter. He studied under Konstantin Yuon and in the studio of Il'ya Mashkov (1904-5), then at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin. In 1909 he exhibited with Golden Fleece and in 1910 was a founder-member of the avant-garde exhibiting society, the JACK OF DIAMONDS, of which he remained an active member until its dissolution in 1916. Fal'k was well known for his portraits and still-lifes of this period. His elongated seated figures of 1913 reveal a study of C?zanne, while the portraits and still-lifes of 1914 betray the influence of Picasso's early Cubist work. The Portrait of the Tatar Journalist Midkhata Refatov (1915; Moscow, Tret'yakov Gal.) shows his mature style in the Cubist idiom.
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