EVGENY SUKHACHOV (20TH CENTURY) Untitled

signed and extensively inscribed (on the reverse) ink on paper 30.5 × 42.6 cm executed circa 1970 The reverse bears an English inscription: 'I need no the Soviet C-camp that I may get it myself', together with lines from the Afro-Caribbean song Dig My Grave: 'Dig my grave both long and narrow / Make my coffin neat and strong', recorded in 1935 and performed by British and American singers in the early 1970s.