10 June 2021
 
    
        
        Sky over the City, signed, inscribed in Cyrillic “versiia 2”, titled and dated 1979–1980 on the reverse.                
        Oil on canvas, diameter 98 cm.
        6,000–9,000 GBP
    
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 2000.
Private collection, Europe.
Exhibited: Sergey Shablavin Non-Conformist, Quaedvlieg Modern Fine Art, Maastricht, September 2004.
Russian Soul, Thorn Museum, Thorn, September 2013–February 2014.
Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Sergey Shablavin Non-Conformist, Maastricht, Quaedvlieg Modern Fine Art, 2004, p. 53, illustrated. 
The present lot as listed in the 2004 publication.
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