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OCTOBER 2023 DECORATIVE & FINE ART SALE
Lot 224:
Titled "A village house" (Selskiy domik), ca. 1950. Information is on the verso.Provenance: family of the artist. Purchased and attributed to the Svechnikov by PRIMORSKAYA STATE ART GALLERY exhibition director Volkogonov.Bio: Boris Petrovich Sveshnikov (1927–1998)[1] was a Russian nonconformist painter. On February 9, 1946, Sveshnikov, then a nineteen-year-old art school student at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, went to buy kerosene in a nearby shop. On the way, he was arrested for participating in a terrorist group preparing an assassination attempt on Josef Stalin. One of the participants in this fabricated MGB accusation was the artist Lev Kropyvnytsky, with whom Sveshnikov studied at the institute. Before his so-called trial, Sveshnikov spent a year in prison. Subjected to endless night interrogations, trips from the basements of Lubyanka to Lefortovo Prison and back, sleep deprivation, and jail overcrowding, inevitably brought Sveshnikov to the brink of physical and nervous exhaustion. After a year, he was sentenced to eight-years in maximum security labor camps.
Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 13 in., (24 x 33 cm.)
Condition: Perfect, framed under glass.
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