Artist: Sitnikov, Alexander (Russian, born 1945)
Title: Dream
Date: 1978
Medium: oil and mixed media on canvas
Dimensions: 23.63" x 23.63" inches; (60.02cm x 60.02cm)
Description: Sitnikov paintings are metaphoric; he pays special attention to the game with the spectator and with forms of painting, creating an intellectual platform with humanitarian signs and symbols of civilization like his famous "Dreams. The Rape of Europa" and "Dream. Temptation". Sitnikov uses metaphors and mythology (with cultural or literary references) which emerge from the history of modern Russia. His paintings are in the permanent collections of major museums, including the State Russian Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Museum Ludwig, Cologne Museum of Modern Art, Sofia, Bulgaria Kolodzei Art Foundation, and number of USA Museums of Art.
Signature: signed and dated on canvas reverse
Provenance: Provenance: current owner acquired it from International Images, Ltd. Fine Art Gallery, Sewickley, PA in the 1980s; prior to that directly from the artist
Frame Type: silver and black with linen liner
Frame Size: 26.5 x 26.5 inches

in good condition apart from some rubbing along the lower frame edge and the resulting paint loss and minor crazing in the thicker parts of the painting