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This artwork, Architectural Composition with Columns by Vladimir Weisberg, is currently for sale at ABA Gallery.
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TITLE:
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Architectural Composition with Columns
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WORK DATE:
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1978
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CATEGORY:
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Paintings
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MATERIALS:
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Oil on canvas
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SIZE:
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h: 20.5 x w: 22 in / h: 52.1 x w: 55.9 cm
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REGION:
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Russian
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STYLE:
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Russian Contemporary
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PRICE*:
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Contact Gallery for Price
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DESCRIPTION:
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Born in Moscow. He was seriously wounded in Second World War and invalided out of the forces as a “group three psychopath invalid”. Although not a student there, he attended lectures at the Surikov Art Institute, Moscow, where he studied under the well – known Russian artist À.Osmerkin. He worked as a teacher of drawing at the Moscow College of Architecture. In 1962 he participated in exhibition in the Manege and was accused of “pornography” on the basis of one of his canvases, a nude. Vladimir Weisberg’s works can be found in The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), the State Russian Museum, The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow), Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University (USA) and many other and public and private collections in Russia, USA and France. Solo exhibitions: 1975: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; 1979: The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel; 1984: Galerie Gorky Basmadjian, Paris, France; 1988: The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; 1994: Retrospective, the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
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LITERATURE:
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Alexander Gleser, Contemporary Russian Art, 1993, p.87, illustrated
Gail Gelburd, Silent Scream from the Russian Underground, 1995, illustrated
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