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Alexei Mikhailovich Gritsai
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8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description
- Alexei Mikhailovich Gritsai
- The Oka in August
- signed in Cyrillic l.r.; further signed, titled and dated 1975 and bearing a Soviet export label on the reverse
- oil on paper laid on board
- 59.5 by 70cm, 23 1/2 by 27 1/2 in.
Provenance
A gift from Mikhail Gorbachev to Steingrímur Hermannsson
Guðlaug Edda Guðmundsdóttir, the widow of the above
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Guðlaug Edda Guðmundsdóttir, the widow of the above
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Exhibition catalogue Alexei Mikhailovich Gritsai. Zhivopis'. Katalog vystavki, Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo, 1984, p.61 listed
Catalogue Note
The present lot was a gift from Mikhail Gorbachev to Steingrímur Hermannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland, during his official visit in Moscow in March 1987. The Moscow meeting was held in the wake of the Reykjavik 1986 summit, which marked an important point of the Cold War disarmament negotiations.