Escape Artists – The Non-Conformists Online
Escape Artists – The Non-Conformists Online
Property from a Private European Collection
Ivan Chuikov
Window XLVI
Lot Closed
September 21, 01:46 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
Ivan Chuikov
1935 - 2020
Window XLVI
signed and titled in Cyrillic and dated 2000 on the reverse
acrylic on masonite and wood with metal hardware
Overall: 120 by 120cm, 47 by 47in.
Framed: 134 by 134cm, 53 by 53in.
This lot will be sent to Greenford Park Warehouse immediately after the auction.
Private collection, United States, acquired directly from the artist
Sotheby's New York, Escape Artists: The Non-Conformists Online, 5 October 2018, lot 23
Sotheby's New York, Escape Artists: The Non-Conformists Online, 5 October 2018, lot 23
Ivan Chuikov, Moscow: Regina Gallery, 2010, p.372 illustrated; p.411 listed
Chuikov's 'window frame' series with images drawn on them is one of his most famous, an exploration of the collision of reality and fiction – a constant source of friction in the Soviet Union. 'It was in the late 1970s, when I was already making windows. I had about thirty of them, and I had other works too, but the main thing was those windows, people knew me by those windows'. Four of Chuikov's paintings were included in Sotheby’s Moscow sale in 1988.