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Dimensions: 235 by 190cm., 92½ by 74¾in.

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Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by George Costakis

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY OF THE LATE ALEXANDER COSTAKIS
?Tselkov?s art is radically different from the rest of the group of Russian non-conformist artists by its strident colours, curbed by the genius of his closest fore-runners ? the great ?Russian ?avant-garde? in which Tselkov?s paintings undeniably participate. ?The lack of spontaneity and the presence of a rational basis in combination with brilliant colours make Tselkov?s art an art of ?craft? and order on the one hand, and n the other engender a feeling not unlike that of a naked nerve when the visual perceptions become oral perceptions, when his monsters begin to blow their unworldly trumpets, howling over their hopeless fragility. [?] It makes Tselkov?s art so dynamic that like such recognised artists as Francis Bacon and Richard Lindner to whom the artist is akin in his inner tensions and his ability to evoke protest, his paintings don?t tolerate the company of other paintings but demand separate display.? George Costakis, Athens, 1979