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VLADIMIR WEISBERG | SIX CUBES
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October 4, 02:15 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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VLADIMIR WEISBERG
1924-1985
SIX CUBES
signed with initials in Cyrillic and dated 76 t.l.; further signed, titled, inscribed with the artist's notes, dated and bearing various labels on the stretcher
oil on canvas
Canvas: 18 by 20½in., 46 by 52cm
Framed: 24 by 26¼in., 61 by 67cm
Galerie Gorky Basmadjian, Paris
Exhibition catalogue Weisberg, Paris: Galerie Gorky Basmadjian, 1984, no.16 listed as Composition architecturale
V.G.Weisberg. Zhivopis', akvarel', risunok, Moscow: Gendalf, 1994, p.130, no.513 listed as Six Cubes
Paris, Galerie Gorky Basmadjian, Weisberg, 20 June - 15 September 1984, no.16
Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Vystavka khudozhestvennykh proizvedenii XVI-XX vekov iz sobraniya G.Basmadzhiana, July-August 1988
A disciple of Cézanne's, Weisberg sought to express the harmony of the world through his painting. In the 1970s and 1980s he took this to its logical conclusion in his 'white on white' paintings, purging it of all extraneous elements: 'I can't do color. It is an eternal struggle.' explained Weisberg to the art historian Ksenia Muratova.