Dmitri Krasnopevtsev

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

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Description

Dmitri Krasnopevtsev
Still Life with Fish and Eggs, circa 1955
signed in Cyrillic (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 1/8 by 31 1/2 in.
61.3 by 80 cm

Provenance

George Costakis, Moscow
Mr. Marshall A. Crowe and Mrs. Doris Crowe (acquired as a gift from the above in 1958 or 1959)
Sale: Waddington's, Toronto, May 16, 2006, lot 281, illustrated

Literature

"Dmitrii Krasnopevtsev," in Renee Baigell and Matthew Baigell, Soviet Dissident Artists: Interviews after Perestroika, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995, pp. 60-64
Norton Dodge, ed. Dmitri Krasnopevtsev: A Retrospective Exhibition, Jersey City, NJ: C.A.S.E. Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Exhibition catalogue, February 24, 1990-May 6, 1990
Dmitri Krasnopevtsev, Exhibition catalogue, May-July 1995, Moscow: Gallery "Dom Natchokina"

Catalogue Note

Working in muted tones and depicting items like herring, bottles, and pipes, Dmitrii Krasnopevtsev created still lifes imbued with an aura of quiet, at times ominous, mystery. His paintings--which, in the artist's words, "speak to us of the god of an all-destroying age"--are suggestive of others in the "metaphysical still life" genre, in particular the works of Giorgio de Chirico and Giorgio Morandi. The dramatic aspect of Krasnopevtsev's still lifes--in which commonplace objects are the key players in a magical theater--is probably indebted to the artist's theatrical training, for he studied stage design at the Surikov Institute of Art. Krasnopevtsev was a member of the Union of Artists and the Moscow City Council of Graphic Artists (Gorkom), and worked as an advertising graphic artist for Reklamfilm for about twenty years.