Reuben Mednikoff

{{Short description|British surrealist artist}}

Reuben Mednikoff (1906–1972), was a British surrealist artist.

Mednikoff was born in London in 1906 into a Jewish family of Russian ancestry.{{cite web |title=Reuben Mednikoff |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG38014 |website=British Museum |access-date=30 June 2022}} He trained at Saint Martin's School of Art.

He was married to Grace Pailthorpe, a surgeon and artist 23 years his senior.{{cite web |last1=Remy |first1=Michel |title=Lives of the Artists Grace Pailthorpe and Reuben Mednikoff |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-44-autumn-2018/lives-of-the-artists-grace-pailthorpe-reuben-mednikoff-michel-remy |website=Tate |access-date=30 June 2022}}