Lot 199
  • 199

Semyon Faibisovich

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Semyon Faibisovich
  • Taking a Rest from the Bus Stop series
  • signed with initials in Cyrillic and dated 08 l.r.; further signed, titled, inscribed and dated 2008 on the reverse
  • digital print and oil on canvas
  • 205 by 150cm, 80 3/4 by 59 1/4 in.

Provenance

Almine Rech Gallery, Paris 
Regina Gallery, Moscow

Exhibited

Birmingham, Ikon Gallery, Artists for Ikon, 2015

Literature

Exhibition catalogue Artists for Ikon, Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 2015, p.73 illustrated

Condition

Digital print on original canvas. The surface is slightly tacky and has accumulated a layer of dust and fluff. There is a diagonal crease in the upper left corner with associated craquelure. There are light stretcher bar marks on the upper edge and a possible light surface scratch running vertically near the lower left edge. There are creases to the sitter's jeans. Unframed.
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Catalogue Note

'I have always believed that I painted ordinary people. There were no rich people then [in Soviet times], you have forgotten it already... There was party nomenclature. But these people did not ride trolleybuses. And I had nothing in common with them.' (quoted in Semyon Faibisovich. Everything is on Sale. Comeback, Moscow, 2008, p.12).