Meer Meir Axelrod, Belarusian, Russian, 1902 to 1972, double sided watercolor painting on paper depicting a portrait of a woman in blue and a landscape. Signed and dated, lower right. Additionally signed, inscribed, and dated, on the other side. Provenance: Shapiro Auctions New York, October 18, 2017, lot 198. Meer Moiseevich Akselrod, also Meyer Axelrod was a Belarusian painter best known for his watercolor paintings of Jewish life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Akselrod was born in Maladzyechna, Russian Empire. As a child, he survived a pogrom and moved to Russia during World War I. In the 1920s, he studied and then taught at the VKhUTEMAS School of Art. He was one of the members of the art association The Four Arts, which existed in Moscow and Leningrad in 1924 to 1931. One of a kind artwork.