Lot 158
  • 158

Vlada Ralko

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Vlada Ralko
  • Boys
  • signed in Cyrillic l.r.; further signed, titled and dated 2006 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 200 by 100cm., 78 3/4 by 39 1/4 in.

Provenance

Gallery Atelier Karas, Kiev

Exhibited

Kiev, Gallery Atelier Karas, Bliznetsy [Twins], 2006

Moscow, Art Moscow, CHA, Bliznetsy [Twins], 2007

Condition

Original canvas. There is a layer of light surface dirt and minor abrasion to the edges, otherwise in good condition. Unframed.
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Catalogue Note

"Push each other away, confront each other, collapse, and start again - inseparable, contaminated, condemned, at the boundary of what is assimilable or thinkable"
Julia Kristeva, The Powers of Horror, An Essay on Abjection, New York, 1982