Russian art at auction Gene Shapiro
One of the major units in strings of non-conformists - a picture of Hope Elskoy. This artist, who died very young, was a group "lianozovtsev. She studied with Oscar Rabin and participated in the famous "bulldozer exhibition" in 1974. Her painting "The Church and the flowers" (30-40 thousand) was bought by present owner from the artist Yevgeny Rukhin. Rukhin also represented at the auction the painting, which was acquired directly from the collection of the artist. Another remarkable work - painting "The Fall" by Peter Belenok. It is estimated at 40-60 thousand dollars. The painting was bought from the artist in 1970. In addition, the auction will be presented five works of Vasily Sitnikov, as well as works by Tatiana Nazarenko and Natalia Nesterova.
And of course, Gene Shapiro could not ignore such a phenomenon in the Russian postwar art as a social art. At auction exhibited numerous works of Alexander Kosolapov, Leonid juices and duo Komar & Melamid. Lot 162 - ironic "psychedelic" interpretation of the famous ancient image Discobolus (120-150 thousand dollars). Organizers called the bidding this work "one of the most important works of Komar and Melamid, ever appear at auction.
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