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View full screen - View 1 of Lot 101. Telegram No.2, Telegram No.4, Telegram No.5 and Telegram No.11 (four works).

Property from the Bar-Gera Collection

Vagrich Bakhchanyan

Telegram No.2, Telegram No.4, Telegram No.5 and Telegram No.11 (four works)

Lot Closed

September 21, 02:42 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Bar-Gera Collection

Vagrich Bakhchanyan

1938-2009

Telegram No.2, Telegram No.4, Telegram No.5 and Telegram No.11 (four works)


each signed in Cyrillic and dated 1972 l.l.; each further bearing various exhibition labels on the backing board and frame

collage on paper

Sheet: each 43.5 by 63cm, 17 by 24¾in.

Framed: each 61 by 80cm, 24 by 31½in.

4

Exhibition catalogue Nonkonformisty: vtoroi russkii avangard 1955-1988, Cologne: Wienland, 1996, pp.79-80 illustrated
Exhibition catalogue L'arte vietata in URSS 1955-1988, Milan: Electa, 2000, p.178, Telegram No.11 illustrated; p.179, Telegram No.4 illustrated
Exhibition catalogue Persecuted Art and Artists under Totalitarian Regimes in Europe during the 20th Century, Bönen: Kettler, 2003, p.178, Telegram No.5 illustrated b/w; p.242, Telegram No.11 illustrated; p.276, Telegram No.5 and Telegram No.11 listed
Exhibition catalogue Avantgarde im Untergrund: Russische Nonkonformisten aus der Sammlung Bar-Gera, Wabern/Bern: Benteli, 2005, p.153, Telegram No.2 and Telegram No.4 illustrated; p.163, nos.7, 9, 10 and 11 listed
Exhibition catalogue Nonkonformisti. Druhá ruská avantgarda 1955-1988. Zbierka Bar-Gera, Bratislava: Syntesia, 2008, p.117, Telegram No.4 illustrated; p.169, Telegram No.4 listed
St Petersburg, The State Russian Museum; Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery; Frankfurt, The Städel Museum et al., Nonkonformisty: vtoroi russkii avangard 1955-1988, 1996-1997
Ashdod, Art Museum Ashdod, Persecuted Art and Artists under Totalitarian Regimes in Europe during the 20th Century, 22 June - 21 September 2003
Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern, Avantgarde im Untergrund: Russische Nonkonformisten aus der Sammlung Bar-Gera, 3 February - 24 April 2005
Bratislava, The Slovak National Gallery, Nonkonformisti. Druhá ruská avantgarda 1955-1988. Zbierka Bar-Gera, 14 November 2008 - 22 February 2009