5 June 2019 Important Russian Art Auctions, at Asia House
5 June 2019
* 201. FAIBISOVICH, SEMION (B. 1949)
What Time Is It? (7 November 1987), from the series “Festive Demonstration of Workers”, signed, inscribed in Cyrillic “tsikl “Prazdnichnaia demonstratsiia”, titled and dated 1989 on the reverse.
Oil on canvas, 170 by 200.5 cm.
80,000–120,000 GBP
Provenance: Important private collection, Switzerland.
Exhibited: From Wall To Freedom. 1984–1993, Imago Art Gallery, Lugano, 21 January–23 April 2016 (label on the stretcher).
Literature: Semion Faibisovich. Paintings from the 1980s, Moscow, Regina Gallery, 2001, p. 95, No. 57 illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, From Wall To Freedom. 1984–1993, Lugano, Imago Art Gallery, 2016, illustrated.
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