YURI KUPER (B. 1940) Circus

signed in ink ‘Y. Kuper’ (lower right) and inscribed ‘A/P’ (lower left) etching on paper Artist’s proof 60 × 49 cm Accompanied by an expertise issued by the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, 1994. Yuri Leonidovich Kuper (born Kuperman) was born in Moscow on 5 July 1940. A Russian-born artist, he works across a variety of media, including painting, printmaking, sculpture and scenography. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 and subsequently lived and worked in Israel, the United Kingdom, France and the United States. His works are held in major museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.