Christie's: Impressionist, Nineteenth and 20th Century Works on Paper: Lot 885
Pavel Filonov (1883-1941)
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Abstract Composition with Spheres oil on paper 28 x 20in. (72 x 51cm.) Painted circa 1930 PROVENANCE David Vayner, USA Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne Acquired directly from the above by the father of the present owners LITERATURE J. Kriz, Pawel Nikolajevic Filonov, Prag 1966, no. 39 (illustrated). EXHIBITION St. Petersburg, 15 Jahre Knstler der RSFSR, 1932 Nowosibirsk, Pawel Filonow, 1967, no. 70. NOTES Sold with a photo-certificate by Nicoletta Misler dated 5 Ocotber 1992 Pawel Filonow directed one of the departments of the Museum of Painterly Culture in Petrograd, which was established under Malevich's direction in 1923. "Filonow's pictorial aims demanded exhaustive attention to detail - a "control" and "exactness" in the handling of the minutely worked surface of the painting - in order to realize the goal of "madeness" which he strove to achieve."(Exh.cat. New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis collection, p.109).
