NIKOLAI KRITSKY (RUSSIAN B. 1923)

Power to the People, 1957
oil on linen
128 x 227 cm (50 3/8 x 89 3/8 in.)

EXHIBITED
Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde, February 1998-April 2002

The exhibition traveled to:
Pasadena, ArtCenter College of Design, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, February 22 - May 3, 1998
Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery, May 15 - June 15, 1999
St. Petersburg, The State Russian Museum, February 12 - April 4, 1999
Oxford, Ohio, Miami University Art Museum, November 2 - December 12, 1999
Brighton, Massachusetts, Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art, October 15 - December 10, 2000
Gainesville, University of Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, April 12 - July 3, 2005
Laramie, University of Wyoming Art Museum, September 8 - November 18, 2007
St. Peter, Gustavus Adolphus College, Hillstrom Museum of Art, September 3 - November 10, 2008

LITERATURE
Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde (Los Angeles, New York: Curatorial Assistance, Distributed Art Publishers, 1998), ex. cat., p. 54 (illustrated)

For another variant of this work in the collection of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Jersey, see: Oscar Rabin. Almanac. Edn. 148 (Saint Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2007), pp. 134-135 (illustrated) and Oscar Rabin. Three Lives. The Retrospective Exhibition / Almanac, Edn. 219. (St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2008), p. 9 (illustrated)

CONDITION
Observed in frame, the work appears in good and stable condition. Minor craquelure visible to the lower left corner. Inspection under UV shows scattered retouching, most notably to the man's back with the bullet strap and rifle and above the man in the green jacket to the left.

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