LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Oil on canvas
Measurements:
101.56 in. (257.95 cm.) (height) by 78.00 in. (198.12 cm.) (width)
Markings:
Signed, titled and dated E. Bulatov Breshnev 1977 Soviet Cosmos [in Cyrillic] on the reverse.
Exhibited:
Kunsthalle Zurich, January 15 - February 28, 1988; Portikus Frankfurt am Main, March 24 - April 24, 1988; Kunsverein Bonn, May 2 - June 4 1988; Amsterdam, De Appel Foundation, June 11 - July 6, 1988; Kunstverein Freiburg, July 12 - August 19, 1988; Paris, Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne, Galeries Contemporaines, Centre Georges Pompidou, September 28 - November 27, 1988; London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, February 22 - April 23, 1989; Boston, MIT List Visual Arts Center, May 6 - July 2, 1989; Newport Beach (California), The Newport Harbor Art Museum, July 27 - October 1, 1989; The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, October 8 - November 25, 1989, Erik Bulatov Moscow; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Prato, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Artisti Russi Contemporanei, February 10 - March 14, 1990; Ridgefield (Connecticut), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Adaptation & Negation of Socialist Realism, June 9 - October 7, 1990; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Face à l'Histoire 1933-1996, December 19, 1996 - April 7, 1997; Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, Erik Bulatov, That's It., September 19 - November 19, 2006
Literature:
C. Jolles, ed. Erik Bulatov, Zurich, 1988, n.p. (illustrated); E. Bulatov, C. Jolles, V. Missiano, N. Ouvrard and S. Zadora, Erik Bulatov, Paris, 1988, n.p. (illustrated); ICA Documents 8 Novostroika, Erik Bulatov, London, 1989, p. 43 (illustrated); R. Taylor, The Boston Globe, May 10, 1989, n.p. (illustrated); I. Levkova - Lamm, Contemporeana, October, 1989, p. 90-91 (illustrated); M. Tupitsyn, Margins of Soviet Art, Milan, 1989, p. 68 (illustrated); B. Groys, Artisti Russi Contemporanei, Prato, 1990, p. 83 (illustrated); J. Gambrell and Y. Barabanov, Adaptation & Negation of Socialist Realism, Ridgefield, 1990, p. 10 (illustrated); L. Beke, Face à l'Histoire, Paris, 1996, p. 393 (illustrated); N. Divona, N. Godzina, A. Kharitonova, I. Lebedeva, and A. Yerofeev, Erik Bulatov, That's It., Moscow, 2006, p. 102 (illustrated)
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist