Natasha Arendt (Russian/British, born 1959) Wine, Fruits and Vegetables signed in Cyrillic and dated '2020' (lower right) oil on canvas 122 x 76cm (48 1/16 x 29 15/16in). unframed Footnotes: Provenance Private collection, UK. Natasha Arendt is a contemporary multidisciplinary London-based artist whose practice brings together painting, sculpture, assemblage, and collage. Trained as a stage designer at the Moscow Art Theatre School, she focuses on exploring 'the hidden life of things'. Her practice is grounded in an intuitive, materially driven approach, through which wood, found objects and other everyday materials are transformed into poetic painterly and sculptural compositions. The present work belongs to a series featuring shop sign-like images painted on wood panels and canvas, through which Arendt explores the relationship between image, object, and material. While adopting the visual vocabulary of the shop sign, the work also offers a somewhat naïve and colourful celebration of material objects, in the spirit of Niko Pirosmani. In this way, Arendt presents her artwork in the guise of a familiar, mundane object, bestowing upon it a new visual and poetic quality. Arendt's work can be found in institutional and private collections, including the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg; the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow; the Museum of Contemporary Russian Art in Jersey City; the Nukus Museum in Uzbekistan; and the Voloshin Museum in Koktebel. Her work has been exhibited internationally. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing