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Property from a Private Collection, United States

Dmitri Krasnopevtsev

Still Life with Feather and Scrolls

Lot Closed

September 21, 02:07 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, United States

Dmitri Krasnopevtsev

1925 - 1995

Still Life with Feather and Scrolls


signed with initial and dated 73 l.r.

oil on masonite

Board: 39 by 60cm, 15¼ by 23¾in.

Framed: 49.5 by 71cm, 19½ by 28in.

Private collection, United States
MacDougall's London, Post-War & Contemporary Russian Art Auction, 13 June 2008, lot 371
N.Dodge and A.Hilton, New Art From the Soviet Union: The Known and Unknown, Washington: Acropolis Books, 1977, p.89 illustrated b/w
A.Ushakov, Krasnopevtsev: Zhivopis', Moscow: BONFI, 2007, p.87, no.271 illustrated b/w
Arts Club of Washington, D.C. and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, New Art from the Soviet Union: The Known and Unknown, 1977

Art historian Rostislav Klimov notes the subtle yet powerful sense of balance and harmony inherent to Krasnopevtsev's still lifes, as well as the artist’s strict adherence to a particular working method and a limited range of depicted objects. Each painting acts as a self-contained, yet constantly evolving expression of the artist’s thinking process.


Krasnopevtsev commented on his work in 1988: ‘I am certain that contemporary art like none before it demands silence, due to an inevitable and desirable contrast. Majestic, stern, composed, it must awake in us feelings of tranquility, order, permanence, and solidity – everything we lack in this insane, soul-mutilating everyday reality' (quoted in A.Borovsky, ‘Art in the Delta of Alternative Culture’, in Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde, Los Angeles: Curatorial Assistance, Inc. and New York: D.A.P, 1998, p.16).