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512 - Boris Orlov,
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£7,000 - 9,000 (€8,300 - 11,000)Sale fees
Boris Orlov, Russian b.1941 - Mermaid, From Magritte, 2002; painted bronze, signed, titled in Cyrillic and dated '2002' on the base, H14 x W37.5 x D22 cm Provenance: Private Collection, Germany, acquired directly from the artist (according to a previous cataloguing of the work); MacDougall's, Contemporary Russian Art, 25th November 2019, lot 63; Private Collection Note: in his work, Orlov confronts the Soviet state power. He takes official Soviet ideologies out of context and applies it in satirical and surrealist ways. He is a key figure in Soviet pop art, which emerged as a reaction against socialist realism. His works are in the collection of the Tate Modern, London.
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Modern British & 20th Century Art: Part IIAuction house
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