In its vibrancy and vibrations, this painting has a sense of phantasmagoria, of color's independent life, of richness of content, reflecting certain processes within the consciousness and the subconscious.

Theodora Clarke, Russian Art Scholar, The Courtauld Institute of Art

Provenance

This painting was acquired directly from the Artist for the Pushkin Group, Ltd. in 2002.

Publication History

Boris Chetkov - Across All Barriers, Pushkin Group, Ltd., 2006, Page 91, Plate 69

Boris Chetkov - 100 Masterworks, Pushkin Group, Ltd, 2012, Page 53, Plate 35

Boris Chetkov (1926-2010)

During the post-war period, at a time when the Russian avant-garde was demonized in the Soviet Union as formalist and bourgeois, Chetkov resurrected many of their techniques. His works share the deliberate ‘unsophistication’ of Primitivist or folk art, the abstraction and spirituality of Kandinsky and the romantic whimsical view of peasant life as pioneered by Chagall.

Across All Barriers

Fortunately, Boris Chetkov did not suffer the almost total oblivion that was the lot of his predecessors, as he has become broadly regarded as one of the most important and distinctly unique innovators of Post War Russian art.

Re-Imagining Russia

Theodora Clarke discusses the artist's life and work and places Chetkov in the context of Modernism and Russian art in the Post War Era.

The Collected Works of Boris Chetkov

Dedicated to the extraordinary life of Boris Chetkov, illuminating his works in high-definition detail with videos, galleries, essays and more.