Lot 133
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Boris Petrovich Sveshnikov (Russian, b.1927)
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Boris Petrovich Sveshnikov (Russian, b.1927)

The Angel of Green Hill

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Boris Petrovich Sveshnikov (Russian, b.1927)
The Angel of Green Hill
inscribed in cyrillic (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
29 x 35 in. (73.5 x 89 cm.)
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

Sveshnikov studied at MIPIDI until his arrest in 1946. He was active in prison camps, making 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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