Escape Artists 2.0: The Non-Conformists Online
Escape Artists 2.0: The Non-Conformists Online
Property from the Family of the Artist
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October 4, 03:12 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
LEONID LAMM
1928-2017
GLAMOROUS EXIT (ENTRANCE)
signed with initials and dated 75 l.r.; further signed in Latin, inscribed Glamorous and dated on the reverse
gouache and watercolor over pencil on paper
Sheet: 9½ by 14½in., 24 by 37cm
Framed: 16¾ by 21¾in., 42.5 by 55.5cm
Exhibition catalogue Leonid Lamm, From Utopia to Virtuality, St Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2008, p.76, no.77 illustrated
Moscow, Central House of Artists, Retrospective, 1978
Durham, Duke University Museum of Art, Birth of an Image, 1998
St Petersburg, The State Russian Museum, Leonid Lamm, From Utopia to Virtuality, 2009
New Brunswick, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, Nevermore: Leonid Lamm, Selected Works, 3 March - 30 September 2018
Lamm originally studied architecture at the Construction Institute of the Moscow City Council where he was taught by the constructivist architect and leading exponent of architectural futurism Yakov Chernikhov. Through Chernikhov, Lamm was fortunate enough to be exposed to the work of Vladimir Tatlin and Kazimir Malevich whose artistic legacy had otherwise been erased from the pages of art history by the Soviet censor. This early training was to have a significant influence on his understanding of form and volume, indeed he was one of the first in post-war Russia artists to turn to abstraction: in 1954.
That same year he graduated in fine art at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, Lamm pursued a career as an illustrator which enabled him to discretely work on his own projects. After submitting documents for emigration Lamm was arrested (1973-1976), however his work, as previously, was exhibited in the USSR and in the West. In 1982, realizing the impossibility of implementing his projects, the artist immigrated to New York. There he successfully continued his creative career until the end of his life.
Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums such as Solomon Guggenheim and The Metropolitan Museums, New York, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Centre Pompidou, Paris, The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow and many others.