Paul Kotlarevsky was a Russian artist. He was a lawyer by profession but his real passion was painting. He visited Europe with his wife and son and arrived in Paris in 1913. During the First World War, he fought alongside French troops instead of returning to Russia. After losing everything due to the Russian Revolution, he decided to remain in France and pursue his interest in painting. He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts and befriended many artists, particularly those from Paris's Russian community. He experimented with many styles but was particularly drawn to Cubism, which is apparent in his work. His painting, Harvest, juxtaposes manual labor and industrialized agriculture and is also indebted to Russian Primitivism and Futurism, c...