25 November 2019
Haystacks Against the Light .
Oil on cardboard, 42 by 80 cm.
16,000–20,000 GBP
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist’s family by the present owner in Moscow, c. 2000.
Private collection, USA.
Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by Vladimir Stozharov, the artist’s grandson.
It has been included as No. 1132 in the complete registry of the artist’s works, compiled by the family.
Exhibited: Peredvizhnaia personalnaia vystavka zhivopisi Vladimira Fedorovicha Stozharova, Syktyvkar, Archangelsk, Kirov, Izhevsk, Gorky, Kuibyshev, Ulyanovsk, Astrakhan, Kostroma, Ryazan, Bryansk, Kalinin, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk, 1972–1974.
Soviet Art in Conflict. The Artist as an Agent of Social Change, Springville Museum of Art, Utah, September 2007–February 2008.
Literature: Vladimir Fedorovich Stozharov. 1926–1973. Zhivopis, risunok, Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1977, p. 109, listed under the works from 1971.
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