MacDougall Auctions 12-18 June 2008
12 June 2008
* 468. OKSHTEYN, SHIMON B. 1951
Satisfaction from Okshteyn's series Witches. Signed and dated 1984, also signed and dated on the reverse.
Oil on canvas, 168.5 by 153.5 cm.
40,000-60,000
Exhibited: Edward Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York City, USA, 1984.
The History of the USSR, MacDougall's, London, April-May 2008.
Literature: Russian Museum, Shimon Okshtein: A Conversation with an Object, Palace Editions, St. Petersburg, 2007, p. 50 illustrated.
Shimon Okshteyn, Watch out for Shimon Okshteyn's Witches, Edward Nakhamkin Fine Arts, Master Printers, Paris, 1985, p. 17 illustrated.
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