I will actually now leave this forum because I reported this member innumerous times for his xenophobic statements, and he is still here, after...
I assume you know that many of the copies of this rare book were stolen from public archives and libraries in Ukraine and even one was stolen in...
Wow, in Mexico, this does have value! Please let us know if you decide to look at the back of the letter. Would it be fine to ask which auction...
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I don't see it as ugly. It's a church in Arkhangelsk oblast but I don't find the village - Kemisovo(?) The artist is V. Naruzbaev
The brochure that could shed light on his work is by request only - from "Garage" Museum of Contemporary Art. It looks like an anthology of...
I think it's most likely, this is by the icon painer born in 1967. Given that it was painted in the latest period of perestroika, after the Iron...
I don't think he knew about or was interested in Erni in 1973. The Soviet Union was quite closed back then, the détente started in 1972. Also,...
y and i are usually interchangeable in transliteration, so it's good to search for both Here is a wikipedia entry for his biography (in Russian)...
It was! According to the stamp, it was sold as Finnish carton, primed with ochre primer. This was a factory that supplied USSR Art Fund.
It's oil. Looks quite nonconformist UPD. The artist is Igor Voroshylov, he is from Moscow, he took part in some important unofficial art...
Ворошилов 1973. Voroshylov 1973 The stamp is for the carton factory
@moreotherstuff Thank you so much for the card! It's wonderful! It arrived yesterday, after almost 4 months of travelling.
I am thinking it could be some kind of interpretation, or copy
Reminded me of this image https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/86726798_sotheby-s-new-york-19-november-1990
The seagull is from Krasnodar factory, so it's Russian
Author Tokarenko Decorator Gorbenko
is it painted over white ceramics? I think I can see a chip on the fish's tail
That was my first thought, but Oaxacan pottery is more asphalt black in color, and this one looks brownish. Also the, the finish inside looks...
That reminds me of the Huastec-style figure some posted here before, but I think this vessel is quite probably newish.
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