$4,500
mixed media ink pen and colored pencil on oversized art paper 59. 5 x 40.5 cm. (23 3/8 x 16 in.) PROVENANCE PROVENANCEAcquired directly from the Artist circa 1994Private Collection, New YorkCollection of The Duke University Museum of Art (DUMA), North CarolinaSold to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the The Nasher Museum of Art (formerly The Duke University Museum of Art) to a Private Collection, Durham, NCPrivate Collection, New YorkLITERATUREDmitri Plavinsky: Echo Ancient Ruins, New York: Mimi Ferzt, 1995Bowlt, John E., Dmitri Plavinsky, et al. Dmitri Plavinsky. New York: Rizzoli International, 2000The present lot, Statue for Sign over Delphi, was the inspiration for the artist's later major mixed media work, Sign Over Delphi, which appears in the Plavinsky catalogs and monograph. It is also formerly of the Russian Art collection of the Duke University Museum of Art (now the Nasher Museum of Art). In viewing the later resulting work Sign Over Delphi, the viewer can see that this image was incorporated by the artist into that large piece. While unsigned and undated, Statue was verbally authenticated by the artist. The previous owner of this drawing verbally discussed this piece with Dmitri Plavinsky and his wife upon visiting them in Moscow, January 2011, before his passing. The artist believed it to be one of his finer works on paper, and proudly remembered the Duke University Museum acquiring it via their Director, Michael Mezzatesta, the author of the original text for a P Read more…
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2013-02-16
