Lot 66
  • 66

Sergei Borisov

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Sergei Borisov
  • a group of four black and white photographs including The Kiss; The Touch and The Misses of Immature Thought
  • three signed on the reverse in Cyrillic and dated Leningrad 1989, Moskva 1988 and Moskva 1989; one titled Champions of the World on the reverse and inscribed Giya Abramashvili, Konstantin Latyshev, Andrei Yachnin, Boris Matrosov

  • black and white photographs on kodak colour paper
  • two 400 by 274mm., 15 3/4 by 10 1/2 in.; two 304 by 405mm., by 12 by 16in.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist

Literature

Diane Neumaier (ed.), Beyond Memory: Soviet Nonconformist Photography and Photo-Related Art Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University and Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick and London, 2004, illustrated p.186.

Sergei Borisov: Photographs, Moscow, 1993

 

Condition

All with glossy surface. There are some light surface scratches, light handling creases in places and handling marks. UNFRAMED.
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