- 193
Kirill Zdanevich
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Kirill Zdanevich
- Twenty-one original compositions assembled in a folder
- varuiously signed and inscribed in Cyrillic, sixteen sheets dated 1915
- charcoal, pen, ink, watercolour and collage
- 32 by 21cm, 12 1/2 by 8 1/4 in.
Provenance
The Sackner Collection, United States
Christie’s Paris, Bibliothèque d'un Amateur Européen, 23 May 2006, lot 134
Christie’s Paris, Bibliothèque d'un Amateur Européen, 23 May 2006, lot 134
Exhibited
San Francisco, Modernism, Russian Avant-Garde, 1980
Miami, Lowe Art Museum, The Russian Avant-Garde and American Abstract Artists, 1983, no.32
San Francisco, Modernism, Ilya and Kirill Zdanevich, from Futurism to 41 Degrees, 1991
Miami, Lowe Art Museum, The Russian Avant-Garde and American Abstract Artists, 1983, no.32
San Francisco, Modernism, Ilya and Kirill Zdanevich, from Futurism to 41 Degrees, 1991
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, The Russian Avant-Garde and American Abstract Artists, Miami, Lowe Art Museum,1983, p. 38, ill.
Catalogue Note
A pioneer of cubo-futurism, the Georgian artist Kirill Zdanevich was active in both Tbilisi and St. Petersburg, illustrating dozens of avant-garde publications during his career. Together with his brother Ilya Zdanevich, he created the avant-garde group 41 Degrees in 1916. Two years later he published the famous 1918 album of lithographic and collage compositions, alongside Alexei Kruchenykh and Vasili Kamensky.
The offered lot is another extraordinary book of compositions, offered by the artist to his wife in December 1915 and still bearing the dedication ‘To my beloved wife Vailinka’. Its contents bear witness to Zdanevich’s confident handling of a profusion of styles. Elements of Futurism and Cubism are mixed together in compositions both colourful and monochromatic, while some ink drawings recall the Expressionism of Franz Marc.