NEIZVESTNY ERNST (1925-2016) ELAGINA ELENA (1949-2022) ZINOVIEV ALEXANDER (1922-2006) Moscow, 1970s

Black-and-white photograph. 10 x 15 cm. Stamp ‘Ing. Vladimir Hák Bratislava’ and ownership inscriptions on the reverse. Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny (1925-2016) was a Soviet and American sculptor, graphic artist, painter and philosopher, an icon of nonconformist art and laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995). Elena Vladimirovna Elagina (1949-2022) was a Soviet and Russian artist, one of the leading representatives of Moscow Conceptualism, creator of objects and installations and Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev (1922-2006) was a Russian philosopher, writer, sociologist and essayist. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of the symbols of the revival of philosophical thought in the USSR. After the publication in the West of his sharply satirical book ‘The Yawning Heights’, which brought him worldwide fame, and of the novel ‘The Radiant Future’, he was expelled from the country in 1978 and stripped of Soviet citizenship. He returned to Russia in 1999.