The State Literary Museum opened an exhibition, built as a backdrop to the poem Igor Holin "Steppe", dedicated to Vasily Sitnikov

in the State Literary Museum opened exhibition, built as a backdrop to the poem Igor Holin "Steppe", dedicated to Vasily Sitnikov .

Vasily Sitnikov Ya - the legend of the sixties. Past the mental hospital and the prison, "Vaska lamplighter" (a nickname for his work by the operator at the Surikov Institute of filmstrips) remained in the memories of a unique artist-virtuoso, teacher, collector of icons ( little more here ) and a great original.

Steppe - one of the hidden themes in his work, an allegory of the fate and freedom. It is no accident so called poem dedicated Sitnikov another restless sixties - Igor Holin. Written in typical expressive style and holinskom materkom for accents it remained a little-known (say, the circulation was 15 copies). Actually, the exhibition "The Steppe" built as a backdrop for much of the poem Choline Sitnikov, where the work of the Vasily Yakovlevich and other artists act as its elements. The idea of ​​this exhibition-installation Alshibaya belongs to Michael, and the work given to them by Alexander Kronik and perhaps other collectors too.

draft chamber. In the first room - many students Study Sitnikov, often with notes Vasily Yakovlevich. In the second - paintings and drawings of the artist against a panel with a fragment of the poem. And collage assembled from its deliberately "ignorant" of the notes. Essentially, it is a step towards the reconstruction of the atmosphere of time, a set of objects and memories.

Informal "academy Sitnikov" visited dozens. It is no accident his work, especially with women's schedule, today it is not easy to attribute significantly, ie, to understand where the hand Sitnikov, and where - to his students. Such controversial works on the market a lot. Among the auction.

In particular, our database of auction results are more than hundreds of deals on Sitnikov, but many works are the red and yellow indicators of investment risk.

Large canvas Sitnikov "Moscow 1973" is a work Top 20 auction results sixties : back in 2008 it was sold for 627,000 dollars. Over the years, several large-scale commercial operations Sitnikov were sold at about 400 thousand dollars. Some consider it a significant artist, others are more valued as a human phenomenon, a legend of his time, a symbol of free creativity. And with that, his special status, few dispute.

artist left the USSR in 1975, lived in Austria, then in the U.S.. He died in exile in 1987.

Works Sitnikov is in the museum at Rutgers University (meeting of the Norton and Nancy Dodge) and in many famous collections.

Exhibition" Steppe "will last Trubnikovsky Lane, 17, to November 1, 2012.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI
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