Christie's 11.06.2008. Unsold lots

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Nik, that is to say, rather strange job. Subject crucifixion in general was not very popular among Russian artists (after all we have - not Catholics), especially among the avant-garde artists who were to religion, to put it mildly, skeptical. And here - on the one hand Jesus, suspiciously similar to Larionova, on the other hand - helplessly realistic Russian birch trees and a peasant woman, just some Irish stew for Jerome. Claimed estimate should correspond to a masterpiece, but here a completely different case. I'm not saying anything about the authenticity, because it does not see this thing "live".