ERNST NEIZVESTNY (1925-2016) Suicide
Lot 277
Sold
Signed in Cyrillic with initials ‘EN’(on the base); label
and stamp ‘Collezioni Morgante’ and ‘Alberto Morgante’
(on the underside)
bronze
20 x 13 x 12 cm
executed in 1969
Provenance: Collection of Alberto Morgante, Italy
Literature: ‘L’Avanguardia Tradita: L’Arte Russa dal XIX
al XX sec.’, by Franco Miele, Rome, 1973 ; ‘Russie!
Memoria, Mistificazione, Immaginario/Arte russa del
‘900 dalle collezioni Morgante e Sandretti’, by Guiseppe
Barbieri and Silvia Burini, Ed. Terra ferma, 2010, p.255,
no. 98.
Exhibited: La Biennale di Venezia, ‘La Nuova Arte
Sovietica’, 1977