Bidspirit auction | Nemukhin V.N.

Nemukhin V.N. - House with a boat.. Year:  2000 Technique:  Canvas on tablet, graphite pencil, acrylic, collage, assemblage. Size:  50x60. Descripton:  Signed and titled at the bottom edge. Expertize:  Certificate of V.S. Silaev. Nemukhin Vladimir Nikolaevich (1925 - 2016) Russian artist, representative of unofficial art, one of the classics of the second wave of the Russian avant-garde. Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts (2008). In 1943 - 1946 he studied at the Moscow art studio of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions. In the fifties he worked as a designer and poster artist. In 1957 he entered the Moscow State Art Institute. V.I. Surikov, but was soon expelled for disagreeing with the principles of socialist realism. Since 1965 he has participated in foreign exhibitions (USA, Poland, Italy, France). Member of the “Lianozov group”, which formed in the mid-1960s around E.L. Kropivnitsky. He actively participated in private and public exhibitions of avant-garde art, including the “bulldozer exhibition” (1974). The author's works are presented in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA), the Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), the Ludwig Museum of Modern Art (Cologne, Germany), as well as in many other domestic and foreign collections.