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NATALIA NESTEROVA (RUSSIAN B1944)
Last Supper, 2006
oil on canvas
137.2 x 188 cm (54 x 74 in.)
signed, titled, and dated on the verso

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist

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RELATED LITERATURE
Natalya Nesterova, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada, 1992
Last Supper: Paintings by Natalya Nesterova, Central House of Artists, Krymsky Val, Moscow - Berlin: Beco-Verlag, 1987

Natalya Nesterova continuously reflects upon the fundamentals of intellectual, cultural and metaphysical development. She explores the connection and disconnection between mental perception and the objective world as a central issue in the religious life of humanity. She uses masks in religious depiction which are icons of identity and indices of identity transformation either displayed, hidden or revealed, as in Last Supper. Alexandra Anderson-Spivy wrote about Nesterova's works, "In the New Testament paintings, among them Last Supper, Nesterova further eradicates personal identity and ritualizes facial expression by covering all the faces with commedia dell-arte masks. The masks simultaneously convey different expressions and repress individuality while suggesting that humanity just keeps on laying different roles in the same play. In Nesterova's New Testament series, Jesus is an actor and Christianity's central story has been transformed into evocative repertory theatre. "(From Natalya Nesterova: Cautionary Tales, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.)
Article on the forum http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=1485

Сообщение от qwerty

With regard to prices, the upward trend in the Nesterov started three years ago, and I do not think that soon things will change, because a good artist and below a certain level usually does not drop.

http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=585

Estimate: $ 60,000 - 80,000
Result: $ 72,000