Lot 200
  • 200

Semyon Faibisovich

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Semyon Faibisovich
  • In the Line for Vodka I
  • signed with initials in Cyrillic and dated 90 l.l.; further signed and titled in Latin and dated on reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 191 by 226cm, 75 1/4 by 89in.

Exhibited

London, Haunch of Venison and Galerie Volker Diehl, Glasnost: Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s, 16 April - 23 June 2010

Literature

Exhibition catalogue Glasnost: Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s, London: Haunch of Venison/Galerie Volker Diehl, 2010, p.106 illustrated

Condition

Original canvas which is slack on the stretcher and undulates heavily in the lower half. There is a line of cracking in the lower right corner culminating in a small dent from the reverse. There is another scratch with associated cracks to the back of the central figure and in a few places elsewhere. Unframed.
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