Lot 131
  • 131

Tania Antoshina

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Tania Antoshina
  • Card Game; The Oath (2 photographs from the project The Museum of Woman)
  • both signed in Cyrillic and dated l.l.
  • colour prints
  • one: 750 by 955mm., 29 1/2 by 37 1/2 in.; the other: 750 mm by 1015mm., 29 1/2 by 40in.

Exhibited

Moscow, Guelman Gallery, 1997
New York, Florence Lynch Gallery, 2001
London, White Space Gallery, 2004
Rosenheim, Iskusstwo 2000, 2001
Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Femme Art, 2002
Washington, Georgetown University Art Galleries, New Identities New Forms, 2002
New York, Angel Oriensanz Foundation Center for the Arts, Femininity's Redress, 2003
Paramus, NJ, The Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Finding Freedom: 40 Years of Soviet and Russian Art

Literature

The Oath is illustrated on the cover  of Zhenshina i Vsual'nie Znaki, Moscow: Idea Press, 2000 
B. Dillon, 'The Museum of Woman' in Modern Painters, Summer 2004, p.120
F.Piovano, ArtForum, CVA, issue 33, p.75

Condition

There are some handling creases visible in raking light. Otherwise in good overall condition. Held in a simple wood frame.
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Catalogue Note

Both prints are number 4 from an edition of 10.