12 October 2015 Russian Art Auctions
12 October 2015
§ 114. BULATOV, ERIK (B. 1933)
Sévina Sineva, signed and dated 1979, also further inscribed in Cyrillic "Variant kartiny" and titled on the reverse.
Pencil and crayon on paper, 23.5 by 25.5 cm.
7,000-9,000 GBP
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the father of the present owner.
Important private collection, France.
Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the artist.
Sévina Sineva by Erik Bulatov is a variant of the well-known painting of 1979 with the same title, currently in the collection of the Zimmerli Museum (The Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA). It is dedicated to the artist’s friend Vsevolod (Seva) Nekrasov, the poet and one of the founders of Moscow Conceptualism.
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