7 June 2017 Russian Art Auctions
7 June 2017
* 90. GRITSAI, ALEXEI (1914-1998)
Moscow Suburb, signed and dated 1968, also further signed, titled in Cyrillic and dated on the reverse.
Oil on canvas, 42.5 by 90.5 cm.
30,000-40,000 GBP
Provenance: With the salon of the Art Fund of the USSR (label on the stretcher).
Acquired from the above by Gekkoso Gallery, Tokyo (labels on the backing board and on the reverse of the frame).
Acquired from the above by the previous owner.
Private collection, Japan.
Exhibited: Exhibition of the Contemporary Soviet Painting ’79. Poetry in a Spring Breath, Gekkoso Gallery, Tokyo, 1979.
Literature: Y. Nakamura (ed), Aleksei Gritsai, Tokyo, Gekkoso, 1979, p. 13, pl. 4, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of the Contemporary Soviet Painting ’79. Poetry in a Spring Breath, Tokyo, Gekkoso Gallery, 1979, p. 2, illustrated.
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