Ernst Neizvestny

Kepmovr, Modernist Painting by Ernst Neizvestny

1984

Study for Sculpture by Ernst Neizvestny, Russian (1926–2016) Ink and brush on paper, signed upper right Size: 17.5 x 12 in. (44.45 x 30.48 cm) Frame Size: 22.75 x 16.75 inches

An energetic cubist painting composed in a configuration similar to a traditional still life. This painting bears the signature of the artist and uses a multitude of colors in flat washes to invoke a fractured image. Cubist Still...

Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny (Russian: Эрнст Ио́сифович Неизве́стный) (born 1925) is a Russian sculptor. He lives and works in New York City. Non Conformist Post Soviet Avant Garde Neizvestny was born 9 April 1925 in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). In 1942, at the age of 17, he joined the Red Army as a volunteer. At the close of World War II, he was heavily wounded and sustained a clinical death. Although he was awarded the Order of the Red Star and his mother received an official notification that her son had died, Neizvestny managed to survive. In 1947, Neizvestny was enrolled at the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga. He continued his education at the Surikov Moscow Art Institute and the Philosophy Department of the Moscow State University. His sculptures, often based on the forms of the human body, are noted for their expressionism and powerful plasticity. Although his preferred material is bronze, his larger, monumental installations are often executed in concrete. Most of his works are arranged in extensive cycles, the best known of which is The Tree of Life, a theme he has developed since 1956. Art career Although Nikita Khrushchev...

Wonderful Surreal Latin American painting. Painting is oil on masonite board with original frame. Appears to be unsigned. Condition is excelle...