Lot 46: m - VADIM ZAKHAROV, B.1959

PROPERTY OF AN ENGLISH NOBLEMAN

A-4

A-4

200 by 150cm., 78¾ by 59in.

signed in Cyrillic and dated 85 l.m.; signed, titled in Cyrillic and dated 1985 on reverse

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Sotheby's Russian Avant-Garde and Soviet Contemporary Art, Moscow, 7 July 1988, Lot 112

EXHIBITED

Moscow, 1st Exhibition of the Avant-gardist's Club, 1987
Moscow, Hermitage Association, 1987

LITERATURE

V. Zakharov, Elefanten stören das Leben, Durch 2, Graz 1987, p.44 (illustrated)
E.A. Peschler (ed.), Künstler in Moskau, Edition Stemmle, Zürich, 1988

NOTE

The translation of the Russian lettering in the painting is as follows:

''You one-eyed creature! You ugly brute! I curse your vulgar hypocrisy.'' (left)