Russian Contemporary Art

A diachronic distortion of symbolic loads. Born in Leningrad, Olga Tobreluts uses computer techniques to develop her eclectic aesthetic by relying on loans from the history of painti...

Lithograph by Mihail Chemiakin, 152/300 signed in pencil bottom right corner.

A diachronic distortion of symbolic loads. Born in Leningrad, Olga Tobreluts uses computer techniques to develop her eclectic aesthetic by relying on loans from the history of painti...

A unique wall relief by Andrei Prolettski, (born 1963, Krasnoyarsk, Russia). Made of 5052 powder coated aluminium. Here is a note about the artist from an essay by Britta Schroder: "Andrei Prolettski a contemporary artist, born in Siberia, attended the Surikov School of Art in his hometown, is exemplary in his exploration of the influence of Constructivist and Concrete Art’s legacy on contemporary art today. Although Prolettski is always on the move, always looking – he has traveled to India, Vietnam, and Africa; has lived in Germany, Switzerland, and France; and has explored Pop and Minimal Art, as well as the Russian avant-garde – his work still displays a striking similarity to the Russian pioneers of Constructivist and Concrete Art. This likeness does not merely stem from his embracing the clear formal language of geometry, but is rather the result of his taking constructivist orders and charging them with symbolic and universal meaning that goes far beyond art. The French curator and author David Rosenberg writes that “all art in Prolettski’s eyes is the attempt to find the relationship between our world and other parallel worlds, or between our dimension and other related dimensions.” He adds that the artist has “a clear interest in esotericism and occultism,” and that he is “steeped in classical culture and is fascinated by ancient religions, the art of the pyramids […] the cathedrals, […] alchemy and freemasonry.” The idea of a spiritual realm, a truth hidden behind things that takes the form of art, is something Prolettski shares with Kasimir Malevich, the painter of the famous “Black Square.” While the fact that Andrei Prolettski’s grandfather was an architect and his father a chemical engineer may be partly responsible for his pictures’ revealing an affinity with modernist industrial architecture, this is not the only reason. For one, his representations (sometimes planimetric, sometimes axonometric) of austere architectural structures enable him to transform a geometrical order (which he often drafts on scale paper) into a playing field of chromatic variations. Second, his black-and-white works like “Manhattan” and “Operation Room” revolve around the creation of moments of visual ambiguity (similar to Josef Albers’ “Structural...

Intriguing abstract painting by acclaim Russian artist Alexander gore, oil Painting on canvas and is frame in shadow box with glass for protection. Signed and dated by the artist. Ce...

Beautiful work by Russian artist Pawel Malinowskij, dated 1990, 47.5" x 45.5", Oil on Linen, titled Appearance No. 9, from a collector of Russian and European art.

"Architectural Delusion 3" Gouache on paper Measures: 68 x 53 cm, frame included (Signed on the back). Bauhaus style and geometric abstraction style. Geometric shapes in ...

"Architectural Delusion 1" Gouache on paper Measures: 68 x 53 cm, frame included (Signed on the back) Bauhaus style and geometric abstraction style. Geometric shapes in b...

Olga Rozanova "Abstract Geometrics" watercolor on paper (Russian, 1886-1918) Rozanova was born on June 22, 1886, in the small town of Melenki near Vladimir, Russia. After finishing at the Vladimir Women’s Gymnasium in 1904, she studied painting in Moscow. Dissatisfied with the “wretched system of instruction” at the state-run Stroganov Academy of Arts and Industry, she transferred to Konstantin Yuon’s private school, where she met Liubov Popova...

This original framed group of cubist clowns is signed in the lower left and dated 1957. Extremely expressive and fun.

Abstract painting signed D. Filov. Unique frame shape and beautiful color scheme. Dmitry Filov was born in 1953 in St. Peterburg. The age of maturity is being passed in the Crimea...

Large oil on canvas painting titled "The Revelation" or "The Vision," dated 1989 and signed by Victor Urgadumou, citizen of the Soviet Republic of Kalmykia, in Cyrillic. Represents Z...