Lot 301
  • 301

Tatiana Nazarenko

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Tatiana Nazarenko
  • Last Night in Bremen, 1988
  • signed in Cyrillic and dated 1988 (lower right); also signed, titled and inscribed in Cyrillic and dated 1988 (on the reverse)
  • oil on canvas
  • 50 3/4 by 170 3/4 in.
  • 129 by 180 cm

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

Exhibited

Moscow, Central House of Artists, 1989
Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Tatiana Nazarenko: Fragments, 2004
St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum, Tatiana Nazarenko: Vanishing Reality, 2006

Literature

Victoria Lebedeva, Tatiana Nazarenko, Moscow: Moscow Artist, 1991, p. 73
Tatiana Nazarenko: Fragments, Moscow: The State Tretyakov Gallery, 2004, p. 25
Tatiana Nazarenko: Vanishing Reality, St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2006, p. 80

Condition

The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com , an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. This painting has probably never been restored. The canvas is unlined and on its original stretcher. Some slight cracking has developed here and there, yet but none of it seems to be unstable or unsightly. There may be a couple of very small retouches in the brown by the woman pouring the drink on the left side and perhaps inside the back of the chair in the lower left. There is a recent loss situated by the ear of the seated figure on the right. Overall however, the condition seems to be very good.
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Catalogue Note

Tatiana Nazarenko was affiliated with the left wing of the Artists' Union, composed of Soviet official artists of the 1970s generation who created much more experimental and modernist work than that of most of their other, senior colleagues at the Union. Although including some narrative elements and historical references in her works, she often employed fantastic elements and allegory.

Between 1955 and 1962 Nazarenko attended the Moscow Secondary Art School. She graduated from the Surikov Art Institute in 1968, joining the Artists' Union in 1969. From 1969 to 1972 she worked in a studio of the Academy of Fine Arts of the USSR under the noted artist Geli Korzhev. In 1982, she submitted several of her works for an exhibition in Hamburg, but the Soviet authorities did not permit her to attend the opening of the show. Nazarenko was not allowed to travel abroad until 1986, during the time of perestroika. The artist's works were included in the 1988 Sotheby's auction in Moscow.

Nazarenko works as a professor of painting at the Surikov Art Institute, and in 2001 she became a full member of the presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts.