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Escape Artists: The Non-Conformists Online

05 October 2018 | 10:00 AM EDT | New York

SALE TOTAL

1,267,375USD
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  • Oleg Vassiliev
    Portrait with Black Light
    1980-1989
    Lot Sold 62,500 USD

  • Oleg Vassiliev
    First Walk After the Winter
    1989
    Lot Sold 100,000 USD

  • Oleg Vassiliev
    Illumination

    1989
    Estimate: 100,000–150,000 USD

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Sale Number: N09913 Lots : 110

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To coincide with the 30th anniversary of Sotheby’s historic auction of avant-garde and contemporary art HELD  IN MOSCOW IN 1988, we are delighted to announce an online sale dedicated to Soviet-era artists who trod the fine line between ‘official’ and ‘non-official’ art from the 1950s onwards. Several emigrated to the United States and Europe, while others continued to work underground in the Soviet Union where they would hold ex tempore exhibitions in private studios and apartments. Bold, satirical, abstract, political, engaged, escapist, witty – the Russian ‘non-conformists’ were diverse in their artistic practice and shared an anti-establishment sentiment with many of their Western counterparts, though the specific political and social context in which they were operating amplifies their underlying message of dissent.    

From graphic art by Erik Bulatov, Ilya Kabakov and Francisco Infante to large-scale oil paintings by Mikhail Chemiakin and the photorealist painter Oleg Vassiliev, Sotheby’s sale features works in a variety of media from $400 to $100,000, including 38 lots from the Bar-Gera collection and a strong selection of works by Russian-Jewish artists.    

Popular exhibitions in 2017 and 2018 in Paris, London and Moscow at the Centre Pompidou (Kollektsia!), the Tate Modern (Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future) and the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Bidding for Glasnost) are testament to the enduring resonance of this period.    

Highlights from the online sale will be on view at Sotheby's New York from 20 September through 24 September at 1:00 PM.  

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Frances Asquith
Senior Vice President
Specialist, New York
Impressionist & Modern Art
+1 212 894 1063
frances.asquith@sothebys.com
Reto Barmettler
Director
Head of Department, London
Russian Pictures
+44 20 7293 5673
reto.barmettler@sothebys.com
Nina Stemwedel
Sale Administrator
19th Century European Art
+1 212 606 7140
Nina.Stemwedel@sothebys.com
   
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