VASILY SITNIKOV (RUSSIAN 1915-1987)
Sunset, 1985
mixed media on board
25 x 44.5 x 4 cm (9 3/4 x 17 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)
dated on the lower edge, inscribed with measurements, as well as: [Mon 7.XI.1983 at 19.15 it [the board] fell on the top of my head and cut my skin with a nail] in Cyrillic; also bears an inscription in Cyrillic on verso [Wife.... of my friend whom I visited in Vienna.... Parubets. She admired this piece when she saw it here high up under the ceiling. So I climbed and put it down for her pleasure. Because I myself love to give the piece that I like, to twirl it in the hands.], with a later addition [I continued to work on this piece for couple more hours on 4.VII.1986 Friday], also in Cyrillic

PROVENANCE
Gift of the artist to the present owner

LITERATURE
Vasiliy Sitnikov i ego shkola [Vasily Sitnikov and his school], (Moscow, 2009), ill. p. 134-135, no. 45
K. Kuzminsky, ed., Zhitie Vasil' Iaklicha Sitnikova, napisannoe i narisovannoe im samim [The Life of Vasil' Iaklich Sitnikov Painted and Written by Himself], 2009, ill. p. 10-11, visible in the photographs p. 343, 351, 358

EXPERTISE
We are grateful to Konstantin Kuzminsky for confirming the authenticity of this work

EXHIBITED
Nashi Khudozhniki Gallery, Vasilii Sitnikov i ego shkola [Vasily Sitnikov and his school], Moscow, May 24 - July 31, 2009