Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexandre Vinogradov - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Acquired directly from the artist

  • Exhibited

    Vienna, Wiener Secession, It’s a Better World: Russian Actionism and its Context, June 4 – July 13, 1997

  • Catalogue Essay

    The native Moscow painting duo, Dubossarsky and Vinogradov have been an artistic team since 1994. Their Social Realist idiom that incorporates popular culture icons, and raunchy, boisterous activity seems to be like a junk food overdose of western image and media. Odd juxtapositions of such imagery as pornography and wildlife provide a sense of surrealism. At first glance the grand masterpiece scale appears to be a crass and indulgent endeavor in whatever will shock or tug our sentimental strings, however a there is a sense of ethics or truism underscored in all their pomp and exaggeration.

82

Last Butterfly

1997
Oil on canvas (in three parts).
78 ¾ x 177 in. overall
Signed and dated “Vinogradov Dubossarsky [in Cyrillic] 97” lower right.

Estimate
$70,000 - 90,000 

Sold for $181,000

Contemporary Art Part I

15 Nov 2007, 7pm
New York