Lot 273
  • 273

Igor Kopystiansky

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

Description

  • Igor Kopystiansky
  • Doors (Diptych)
  • each part signed, one part dated 1975/77, one part dated 75-79 on the reverse
  • oil and varnish on canvas
  • Each 80 by 60 cm, 31 1/2 by 23 1/2 in.

Exhibited

London, Artist of the Russian Underground, 2007
London, Haunch of Venison; Berlin, Galerie Volker Diehl, Glasnost: Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s, 2010

Please note that this exhibition history is incorrect. The correct exhibition history is as follows:
Lausanne, Musée d'art contemporain, A la découverte…de collections romandes, 1993.

Condition

Left Canvas: Very good overall condition. Very minor wear to canvas visible in bottom right corner. Right Canvas: An area of chipped paint measuring approximately 2cm visible in top right and another one in bottom left. Two small spots of paint loss bottom left. Wear to canvas visible along the edges.
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