Description of the artwork «Dustbin No. 8»
On the back: In memory of a wonderful poet Henry Sapgir from Oscar and go. 20 Nov 1958
Inclusion in picture labels - "Trash No. 8"; "Store No. 5"; "block 2"; "Herring" - a rare phenomenon for works in the late 1950-ies
The poet G. Sapgir, who was presented with this figure, Rabin devoted the poem "the dump":
"March. For the district at the dump
Fog...
Puppy rummaging through the garbage pile
Found a piece of beef. ..."
Vladimir Nemukhin noted the relationship of the themes and images of the artist and poet: "... to speak of direct influence of the poetic sketches in the style of "concrete realism" in the picturesque imagery rabinovsky paintings. Conversely, Genrikh Sapgir – also a pupil of Yevgeny Kropivnitsky – was friends with Oscar since the war, he wrote some of his poems the paintings of Rabin." [Nemuhinskie monologues. 1999. P. 77].
29 Sep 1960 in "Moskovsky Komsomolets" published an article by R. Karpel called "Priests "Midden number 8" , initiated by the denunciation of a certain V. Yatsenko, published in the same: "... the vilest some text abstractionist, worst sense... "works" Rabin calling a real physical aversion, the subjects them — a sign of his spiritual misery. As the best creation he gives his, I may say, the work of "Dump No. 8". Judge for yourself how broad-minded this renegade!... Dark and dirty canvas... See some gnawed bones, something disgusting interwoven, some black spikes. ... just read the bold inscription "Trash number 8," know "idea" and "content" of this truly schizophrenic "canvas" [Lianozovsky group. 1988. Pp. 93-94].
In 1960 a similar article, which, in the language of its authors, literally "the nausea rises to my throat," was tantamount to a sentence. She officially started the company persecution of the artist, which ended with his departure from the USSR and stripped of Soviet citizenship in 1978.
About such a public "flogging" ideologically objectionable artist wrote expelled from the USSR and also settled in Paris Alexander Galich:
"Oh, he thrashed "the first",
Shit, diapered, portage.
Righteous elders, spray foam,
Called him a crook and Pollock".