12 June 2008
Simple Secret signed and titled in Cyrillic and dated 1986 on the reverse.
Oil on canvas, 145.5 by 200 cm.
6,000-8,000
Provenance: Sotheby's, Russian Avant-garde and Soviet Contemporary Art, 7 July, 1988, Moscow, Lot 37.
Private collection, Paris.
Exhibited: Georgian non-figurative art, Hermitage Associated Hall, Moscow, 1987.
Generation of the 1980's, Artist's House, Tbilisi, Georgia, 1987.
Literature: D. Tchikhladze, Exhibition in Moscow, Literaturnaya gruzia, Tbilisi, 1987.
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§ Indicates Artist's Resale Right applies.
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