Yalta conference komar and melamid gallery

Komar and Melamid's painting Yalta Conference, from the Nostalgic Socialist Realism series, This work has also been the cover image for Boris Groys'..

Ben Uri is honoured to launch the world tour of this seminal monumental installation of Yalta from , previously exhibited at Documenta 8 in

Ben Uri is honored to launch the world tour of this seminal monumental installation of Yalta from , previously exhibited at.

Komar and Melamid's painting Yalta Conference, from the Nostalgic Socialist Realism series, This work has also been the cover image for Boris Groys'.

The Minotaur as Participant in the Yalta Conference, , tells a more complicated story.

The idea of creating a composition based on the Yalta Conference occurred to Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, the founding fathers of Sots Art, in the.

7 June 2017 Russian Art Auctions

7 June 2017

Artist Index / Full Catalogue

*§ 173. KOMAR, VITALY and MELAMID, ALEXANDER (B. 1943 and B. 1945)

Yalta Conference, from the series “Nostalgic Socialist Realism”, signed, inscribed “sketch/proposal” for the Mural/for UN building, NYC” and dated 1982 on the reverse.

Tempera and oil on canvas, 101.5 by 75.5 cm.
80,000-120,000 GBP

Provenance: Acquired directly from V. Komar by the present owner in 2007.
Private collection, USA.

Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by V.

Komar.

Exhibited:Glasnost. Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s, Haunch of Venison, London, 16 April—26 June 2010.

Literature: Exhibition catalogue, J. Backstein, et al, Glasnost.

Yalta is a monumental work composed of 31 panels, each four-foot-square.

Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980, Manchester, Cornerhouse Publications, 2010, pp. 140–141, illustrated and listed with the wrong size.

Related Literature: For another version of the present lot, see exhibition catalogue, Komar and Melamid,