ANATOLY SLEPYSHEV (1932-2016) Landscape

Lotto 3

1 2001 400

inscribed in Cyrillic ‘Не то на свете дивно устроено: весёлое мигом обратится в печальное, если только долго застоишься перед ним, и тогда бог знает что взбредёт в голову/ That's not how the world works: a happy thing will turn into a sad thing if you stand in front of it for a long time, and God knows what will come to your mind then’, citation from ‘Dead Souls’, a novel by Nikolai Gogol (upper right); dedicated by the artist in Cyrillic ‘От художника, служителя красоты, красивой женщине в Новый 1994 год. Т. Слепышев/ From the artist, servant of the beauty, to a beautiful woman on New Year's Day 1994. Т. Slepyshev’ oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm painted in 1993-1994 Condition: overall good condition

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