TWO CATALOGUES OF NONCONFORMIST ARTISTS

1) ZELENINE E. [autograph]. [1980s] 25 x 19 cm. Illustrated catalogue. Unpaginated. In French. The artist’s autograph on p. [3]: ‘With friendly wishes! E. Zelenine Paris 81’. Eduard Leonidovich Zelenin (1938-2002) was a Russian and French avant-garde nonconformist artist, a representative of the first wave of the second Russian avant-garde. 2) OLEG TSELKOV. Saint Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2004. 144 pp.: ill.; 31 x 25 cm. (Almanac. Issue 73). In the publisher’s illustrated binding and illustrated dust jacket. In very good condition. Minor rubbing. Published for two exhibitions of Oleg Tselkov (1934-2021), at the State Russian Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery. Tselkov is one of the major figures of Russian nonconformism in the second half of the 20th century; his style is often compared to Surrealism. The volume contains essays on the artist’s creative quest, a short autobiography, an album of colour plates, a list of the museums and collections holding his works, a list of his solo and group exhibitions, and a list of catalogues, books and programmes about the artist.