Boris Sveshnikov

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Property from a Private Collection, New York

Boris Sveshnikov

1927 - 1998

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signed with the artist's monogram and dated 87 l.r.; further signed and titled in Cyrillic and dated on the reverse and bearing an exhibition label on the stretcher

oil on canvas

Canvas: 90 by 69cm, 35½ by 27in.

Framed: 99 by 77.5cm, 39 by 30½in.

Acquired by the present owner in 1990

Exhibition catalogue Silent Screams from the Russian Underground, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995, no.48 illustrated b/w

Odessa, Texas, Art Institute of the Permian Basin, et al., Silent Screams from the Russian Underground, 9 September - 12 November 1995, no.48