KOMAR & MELAMID
Meeting Between Solzhenitsyn and Böll at Rostropovich's Country House from Sots Art Series, 1972
Oil, gold foil and paper collage on canvas. 175 x 120 cm (68 7/8 x 47 1/4 in).
ESTIMATE £100,000-150,000 ‡
SOLD AT £657,250
PROVENANCE Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc., New York; Private Collection, London
EXHIBITED New York, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, 7 February-20 March 1976
This canvas was made as a part of the Sots-Art Series, one of the milestone in the history of unofficial art of the Soviet period. Created in the summer of 1972, the series subsequently turned into a movment in Russian Art that went on to include a number of artists such...
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KOMAR & MELAMID
Meeting Between Solzhenitsyn and Böll at Rostropov..., 1972
Estimate £100,000-150,000
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