Lot 122
  • 122

OLEG VASSILIEV | Walk in the Rain

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Oleg Vassiliev
  • Walk in the Rain
  • signed in Cyrillic, titled in English and Cyrillic and dated 1990 on the reverse
  • oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas
  • 85 by 68 1/2 in. 215.9 by 174 cm.

Provenance

Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Erik Bulatov, Oleg Vassilyev, March - February 1991, p. 17, illustrated

Literature

Karen Thomson, Ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal 2015, cat. no. 133, p. 128, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is minor evidence of wear and handling to the edges. In the lower right quadrant there is a 9 in. horizontal canvas line visible under close inspection, inherent to the weave of the canvas. There is evidence of abrasions on the left side. Under Ultraviolet inspection, the left edge of the canvas fluoresces darkly but is not the result of restoration. Unframed.
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Catalogue Note

"To me, the visible and tangible world is more a thing of remembrance than of perceptions of reality. The present is saturated with the past as a live sponge is saturated with water: through the workings of memory, light comes from the past and illuminates, snatches out of the dark that which is not of this moment. That light is the very essence of remembrance...The deeper one delves into the past, the more powerful the stream of light. And somewhere over there, beyond the boundaries of the discernible, it turns into a river of golden light. In that river my life drowns, and everything that was before lives."
Oleg Vassiliev