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OCTOBER 2023 DECORATIVE & FINE ART SALE
Lot 172:
A set of seven issues of the magazine "A Ya, " an underground Russian art revue of unofficial Russian art. It was prepared illegally in the USSR and published in Paris from 1979 to 1986. Editors: Alexander Sidorov (under the pseudonym "Aleksey Alekseev"), Moscow, Igor Shelkovsky, Paris. The magazine was distributed in the USA by Alexander Kosolapov, New York. The first issue was published with a circulation of 7,000 copies, and other editions were published with a circulation of 3,000 copies. The magazine allowed the world to discover the names of those artists who belonged to unofficial, nonconformist art in the USSR: Eric Bulatov and Oleg Vasiliev, Ilya Kabakov, Dmitry Prigov, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid and many others. This set was published by a group of Russian artists in NY who stopped after the 5th issue. It’s probably the only full set, as the magazine never was in circulation. Which makes this lot a museum quality item.
Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in., (29.5 x 21 cm.)
Condition: There is water damage on the lower half and some of the pages are stuck together.
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