LOT DETAILS

Materials:

mixed media on canvas

Measurements:

57.09 in. (145.00 cm.) (height) by 55.12 in. (140.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in Cyrillic and dated 75 (lower right)

Literature:

Ruth Mayfield, Eugene Rukhin: A Contemporary Russian Artist, Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1975, exhibition catalogue. Norton Dodge and Alison Hilton, eds., New Art from the Soviet Union: The Known and the Unknown, Washington, D.C., and Mechanicsville, Md.: The Cremona Foundation and Acropolis Books Ltd., 1977, exhibition catalogue, pp. 111-113. Alla Rosenfeld, " 'A Great City with a Provincial Fate': Nonconformist Art in Leningrad from the Khrushchev Thaw to Gorbachev's Perestroika," in Alla Rosenfeld and Norton T. Dodge, eds., From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, New York and London: Thames and Hudson and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1995, pp. 101-134. Regina Khidekel, "Traditionalist Rebels: Nonconformist Art in Leningrad," in Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde, New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 1998, pp. 129-147. Marina Unksova, ed., "Minuvshikh dnei opal'naia chreda..": Khudozhnik Evgenii Rukhin i ego vremia, St. Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo imeni N. I. Novikova, 2005

Provenance:

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner