Property from a Private European Collection
Oskar Rabin
Chicken in the Suburbs
Auction Closed
December 1, 01:41 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
Oskar Rabin
1928-2018
Chicken in the Suburbs
signed in Cyrillic and dated 66 l.l.; further titled, numbered N355 and dated on the reverse
oil and gold leaf on canvas
Canvas: 80 by 99.5cm, 31½ by 39¼in.
Framed: 81.5 by 101cm, 32¼ by 39¾in.
Private collection, France, acquired directly from the artist
Sotheby's London, The Russian Sale, 31 May 2006, lot 245
Sotheby's London, The Russian Sale, 31 May 2006, lot 245
O.Rabin, L'artiste et les bulldozers: être peintre en URSS, Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1981, illustrated b/w
'This martyred chicken, like all ready-to-eat poultry, got me into a lot of trouble. The authorities saw it as slander of Soviet reality' (the artist quoted in O.Rabin, L'artiste et les bulldozers: être peintre en URSS, Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1981).