Lot 270
  • 270

Vasily Sitnikov

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

Description

  • Vasily Sitnikov
  • Nine Dimensions
  • signed in Latin, titled in Cyrillic and dated VIII.30.1982 in centre
  • pastel on black paper
  • 118 by 90.3cm, 46 1/2 by 35 1/2 in.

Exhibited

Odessa, Texas, Art Institute of the Permian Basin, Silent Screams from the Russian Underground, September-November 1995 (travelling exhibition, visiting Parkesburg, West Virginia; Scanaba, Michigan; Wausau, Wisconsin; and Fairfield, Connecticut through April 1997)

Literature

Exhibition catalogue Silent Screams from the Russian Underground, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995, p.8, no.45, illustrated

Condition

Pastel on black paper. The paper is slightly buckled. There are some very minor abrasions to the paper surface in the upper right corner, near the upper edge of the left side, and in the lower right corner. Held in a wood frame and under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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