LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on canvas

Measurements:

90.35 in. (229.50 cm.) (height) by 90.16 in. (229.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed twice, titled and dated 'Eric Bulatov E.V.BULATOV GLORY TO CPSU 1975 [in Cyrillic]' on the reverse.

Exhibited:

New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Direct from Moscow!, May, 1987; Kunsthalle Zurich, 15 January - 28 February, 1988; Portikus Frankfurt am Main, 24 March - 24 April, 1988; Kunstverein Bonn, 2 May - 4 June, 1988; Amsterdam, De Appel Foundation, 11 June - 6 July, 1988; Kunstverein Freiburg, 12 July - 19 August, 1988; Paris, Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne, Galeries Contemporaines, Centre Georges Pompidou, 28 September - 27 November, 1988; London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 22 February - 23 April, 1989; Boston, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 6 May - 2 July, 1989; Newport Beach (California), The Newport Harbor Art Museum, 27 July - 1 October, 1989; The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 8 October - 25 November, 1989, Erik Bulatov Moscow; Prato, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Luigi Pecci, Artisti Russi Contemporanei, 10 February - 14 March, 1990

Literature:

M. Tupitsyn, 'From Sots Art to Sovart' in Flash Art, November - December, 1987, pp. 75 - 83; 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); Flash Art, no.141, 1988, front cover (illustrated); H. C. von Tavel and M. Landert, Ich lebe - Ich Sehe. Künstler der Achtziger Jahre in Moskau, Bern, 1988, p.241 (illustrated); E. A. Peschler, Künstler in Moskau, die neu Avantgarde, Zurich, 1988, p.95 (illustrated); B. Groys, Artisti Russi Contemporanei, Prato, 1990, p. 114 (illustrated); N. Divona, N. Godzina, A. Kharitonova, I. Lebedeva, and A. Yerofeev, Erik Bulatov, That's It., Moscow, 2006, p. 102 (illustrated); E. Bulatov, Freedom is Freedom, Bielefeld, 2006, p.18 (illustrated)

Provenance:

Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York