Lot 248
  • 248

Grigory Stepanovich Zozulya

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Grigory Stepanovich Zozulya
  • Five Years of Soviet Power
  • signed in Cyrillic Gr.Zozulin and dated 25 ap. 1922 l.r.; further inscribed in Cyrillic on the reverse
  • gouache on paper
  • 40.5 by 30cm, 16 by 12in.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist in 1975

Exhibited

Moscow, Grigory Zozulya, 1975

Literature

Exhibition catalogue Grigory Zozulya, Moscow: Reklama, 1975, p.10 illustrated; p.23 listed under works from 1922

Condition

There is a vertical tear approximately 2.5cm extending from a pin hole in the lower central edge; there is a second tear extending from pin hole approximately 1cm long halfway up the right edge. There is extensive creasing throughout. Flecks of paint loss and a layer of surface dirt. Held in a simple black wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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