The richly saturated color anchored by the eye-smacking blues and highlighted by splashes of brilliant whites and jewel tones creates the full range of effects - depth as well as flatness, contours as well as planes, the substantive as well as the illusory - evoking a visceral sense of joy.

Dr. Alexander Borovsky, Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Publications:

Boris Chetkov - Across All Barriers, Dr. Alexander Borovsky, Pushkin Group, Ltd. 2005, Page 163, Plate 137

Boris Chetkov - 100 Masterworks, Pushkin Group, Ltd, 2012, Page 73, Plate 55

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Boris Alexandrovich Chetkov (1926-2010)
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During the postwar 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.

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