NEIZVESTNY ERNST (1925-2016), AUTOGRAPH Neizvestny: œuvres graphiques [Neizvestny: Graphic Works] / Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris: exhibition poster. [Paris: Imp. Mazarine, 1970].

1 leaf; 61 x 44 cm. The sculptor’s presentation inscription in the lower part of the poster: ‘To dear Sasha Brener from Ernst / E. Neizvestny’. Alexander Davidovich Brener (born 1957) is a Soviet and Russian artist, poet, writer, art theorist and actionist, one of the most radical representatives of 1990s Moscow Actionism, known for his provocative public actions against the institutional art system, the commercialisation of art and political opportunism. The exhibition (16 January - 15 February 1970) was the first in Paris devoted to the graphic work of the Soviet sculptor Neizvestny. Some 40 to 50 recent engravings and drawings were shown, including a series on the theme ‘L’homme qui bout’ (The Boiling Man). 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).