Modern and Contemporary Russian Art

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Lot 46
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Vadim Zakharov, b.1959

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Vadim Zakharov
  • A-4
  • signed in Cyrillic and dated 85 l.m.; signed, titled in Cyrillic and dated 1985 on reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 200 by 150cm., 78¾ by 59in.

Provenance

Sotheby's Russian Avant-Garde and Soviet Contemporary Art, Moscow, 7 July 1988, Lot 112 

Exhibited

Moscow, 1st Exhibition of the Avant-gardist's Club, 1987
Moscow, Hermitage Association, 1987

Literature

V. Zakharov, Elefanten stören das Leben, Durch 2, Graz 1987, p.44 (illustrated)
E.A. Peschler (ed.), Künstler in Moskau, Edition Stemmle, Zürich, 1988 

 

Catalogue Note

The translation of the Russian lettering in the painting is as follows:

''You one-eyed creature! You ugly brute! I curse your vulgar hypocrisy.'' (left)

''He will come soon. I shall expose my belly to him.''