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Leonid Vasilievich Kabachek
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description
- Leonid Vasilievich Kabachek
- Spring
- signed in Cyrillic and dated 1974 l.r.; further signed, titled, inscribed and dated on the reverse and bearing a Gekkoso label on the backing board
- oil and tempera on canvas
- 198.5 by 108.5cm, 78 1/4 by 42 3/4 in.
Provenance
Gekkoso Gallery, Tokyo
Exhibited
Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Store, Masterpieces of Russian and Soviet Painting, 1975, no.24
Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Store, Exhibition of Contemporary Soviet Painting, 1975
Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Store, Exhibition of Contemporary Soviet Painting, 1975
Literature
Exhibition catalogue Masterpieces of Russian and Soviet Painting, Tokyo: Gekkoso Gallery, 1975, no.24 illustrated and listed
Exhibition catalogue Exhibition of Contemporary Soviet Painting, Tokyo: Gekkoso Gallery, 1975, p.7 illustrated
Exhibition catalogue Exhibition of Contemporary Soviet Painting, Tokyo: Gekkoso Gallery, 1975, p.7 illustrated
Condition
Original canvas. In excellent condition and ready to hang. Held in the original Gekkoso frame with decorative plaster mouldings and a canvas slip. Unexamined out of frame.
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"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
Yoko Nakamura, the director of Gekkoso Gallery, first visited the Soviet Union in 1969 convinced that the country’s art must be worth exploring. ‘The music, literature and theatre of the Soviet Union are all excellent. There cannot be poor painting in a country where the arts are so highly developed.’ A year later the gallery held the first selling exhibition of Soviet art in Japan, these continued annually for over ten years and visited Tokyo, Osaka and Sapporo. Nakamura was involved in numerous enterprises to promote the Soviet Union in Japan. She published a quarterly art magazine in Japan in association with the Ministry of Culture and the Union of Artists of the USSR, and organised a huge retrospective of Soviet and Russian Painting which included over 600 works from the State Tretyakov Gallery, including Ivan Shishkin's Rye Fields and Tair Salakhov's Portrait of Aidan.
An earlier version of this work was published as a stamp in the German Democratic Republic in 1969.
An earlier version of this work was published as a stamp in the German Democratic Republic in 1969.