LOT DETAILS

Materials:

mixed media on board

Measurements:

47.05 in. (119.50 cm.) (height) by 39.57 in. (100.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in Cyrillic and dated 73 (lower right)

Exhibited:

Moscow, Bulldozer Exhibition, 1974

Literature:

Petr Belenok, Artist's statement in Norma Roberts, ed., The Quest for Self-Expression: Painting in Moscow and Leningrad, 1965-1990, Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art, 1990, p. 60. 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. 37-38, figs. 70-71. Janet Kennedy, "Realism, Surrealism, and Photorealism: The Reinvention of Reality in Soviet Art of the 1970s and 1980s," 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. 278-79, fig. 13:6. Alla Rosenfeld, "Stretching the Limits: On Photo-Related Works of Art in the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection," in Diane Neumaier, ed., Beyond Memory: Soviet Nonconformist Photography and Photo-Related Works of Art, New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 2004, p. 159