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JUNE 2024 SALE OF FINE ARTS AND COLLECTIBLES
Lot 135:
Boris Ivanov (1957-2023), an oil on canvas painting depicting dancing musicians. Signed "B. Ivanov" and dated 2000 lower left. Numbered 2, titled "The dancing has ended" and additionally signed on the verso. Housed in a wooden frame.
Boris Mikhailovich Ivanov, (08/14/1957 – 12/02/2023). Born in Dnepropetrovsk in the family of a military musician. He moved to Moscow in 1973. Worked at the construction site, after – at the factory decorator, graduated from the Moscow Art School Memory of 1905 in 1989. In 1992 he began working on genre compositions, along with studies of Moscow cityscapes, and portraits. Ivanov began to exhibit when was a student. The first foreign exhibition was in Australia.
The artist writes: "For the first time, my collection was called "Planet of Fat Men" in 2000 (prompted by Moscow journalist L. Urazova). I continue to work on this series, the favor of themes from life are inexhaustible. The characters themselves, of course, change externally and internally, as it seems to me. I take many themes from my own life: service in the Navy, studies at the music school, and around everything is enough. I work a lot and with pleasure, getting pleasure from the process. During this time I have painted more than 3000 artworks. Since 2006 I started to make dolls, if they can be called so. In order not to get bored of painting pictures, I put aside and cut out figures, sculptures and also with a light grotesque. All my works, I hope, with good irony, and fat people because they are big and kind.
My work has naturally spread all over the world, except for Africa, probably everywhere. When you work with galleries, you don’t know where the work has gone. My works are in the family collections of many Russian politicians and artists: M. Gorbachov, V. Zhirinovsky, Y. Luzhkov, I. Kobzon, N. Mikhalkov, O. Tabakov, M. Zakharov, I. Oleinikov, Y. Stoyanov, A. Kucherena, M. Lesin, E. Malysheva and others. Since 2013 I cooperated with the Puppet Gallery of I. Myzina "Vakhtanov" in the Central House of Artists, and with the gallery "Space of Dolls" I participate in many projects and exhibitions. Since 2013 I take part in the International Doll Salons on Tishinka from the gallery "Space of Dolls". Together with them, we exhibit in the Moscow Puppet Theater" on Spartakovskaya.
23 1/2 x 31 3/8 in., (59.7 x 79.7 cm.)
Condition: Perfect.
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