Ghostly figures by a castle; and three further sketches by the artist

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Boris Petrovich Sveshnikov (Russian, 1927)
Ghostly figures by a castle; and three further sketches by the artist
pen and ink, heightened with white on pink paper
8¾ x 11¾ in. (22.3 x 29.8 cm.)
6 items in the lot (6)

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There are 6 items in the lot, not 4 as in the catalogue

Lot Essay

Sveshinkov studied at MIPIDI until his arrest in 1946. Active in prison camps, he made a celebrated series of drawings of prison camp life in the early 1950s. He was a Non-Conformist artist in the 1960s-80s.

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