Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine (Russian/Ukrainian, 1888-1944) watercolor on paper painting depicting an abstract composition in the Cubist style. Signed lower left. Vladimir Davidovic Baranov-Rossine was a Ukrainian, Russian and French painter of Jewish origin, avant-garde artist (Cubo-Futurism), and inventor. Hw was a contemporary, sometimes a compatriot, and very often a close friend of some of the greatest famous artists of his time, such as Chagall, El Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Larionov, Gontcharova, Malevitch, Pevsner, Arp, Robert, and Sonia Delaunay. He was more often than not a leader as far as art was concerned, and part of all pictorial trends of the beginning of the century. Numerous key galleries and museums such as New Tretyakov Gallery have featured Vladimir Davidovich Baranoff-Rossiné's work in the past.