Lot 282
  • 282

Ivan Pavlovich Bevzenko

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description

  • Ivan Pavlovich Bevzenko
  • Komsomol Rolling Iron
  • signed in Cyrillic and dated 61 l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 80 by 154.9cm, 31 1/2 by 60 3/4 in.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Douwes Fine Art, Pan Amsterdam, 7-14 December 2003

Literature

V.Swanson, Soviet Impressionist Painting, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008, p.299, illustrated pp.302-3 plate 225

Condition

Original canvas. The picture is clean and ready to hang. There are several lines of vertical craquelure in the lower left hand corner. Held in a modern painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

Additional Literature:

http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/visual_arts/painting/exhibits/socialist-realism.htm
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/22693200/Socialist-realism
http://bobart.org/docent/
http://www.russianartgallery.com/