Lot Essay
Alexandre Labas was a founder member of the Elktro-Organism group in Moscow in 1921.
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Composition
Details
Alexandre Arkadevich Labas (1900-1983)
Composition
signed in Cyrillic and dated '21' (lower centre); and indistinctly inscribed and dated '1920-21' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
31 x 28in. (78.7 x 71cm.) oval
Painted circa 1920
Composition
signed in Cyrillic and dated '21' (lower centre); and indistinctly inscribed and dated '1920-21' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
31 x 28in. (78.7 x 71cm.) oval
Painted circa 1920
Provenance
Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne
Acquired from the above by the father of the present owners
Acquired from the above by the father of the present owners
Literature
E. Butorina, Alexander Labas, Moscow 1979, p. 188.
H. Gassner & E. Gillen, Zwischen Revolutionskunst und Sozialistischen Realismus, Dokumente und Kommentare, Kunstdebatten in der Sowjetunion von 1917 bis 1934, Cologne 1979, (illustrated in colour pl. 5).
H. Gassner & E. Gillen, Zwischen Revolutionskunst und Sozialistischen Realismus, Dokumente und Kommentare, Kunstdebatten in der Sowjetunion von 1917 bis 1934, Cologne 1979, (illustrated in colour pl. 5).
Exhibited
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Die Grosse Utopie, Die Russische Avantgarde 1915-1932, March-May 1992, no. 322 (illustrated in colour). This exhibition later travelled to Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, June-August 1992; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, September 1992 - January 1993, no. 346 (illustrated in colour); Moscow, Tretjakow Galerie, April-August 1993 and St. Petersburg, Russian National Museum, 1993, no. 322 (illustrated in colour).