Kukryniksy - "The Cutting Machine" - image-1

Lot 54 Dα

Kukryniksy - "The Cutting Machine"

Auction 1084 - overview Berlin
03.05.2017, 11:00 - Russian Sale
Estimate: 500 € - 800 €
Result: 558 € (incl. premium)

Kukryniksy

"The Cutting Machine"

Inscribed in pencil to the reverse: "Machines for agriculture" (?) Indian ink, wash and gouache on slightly yellowed paper. 41.5 x 29.7 cm. Inscribed in Cyrillic "Kukryniksy 30" in pencil lower right. - Creases to the corners and upper edge, a minute tear to the bottom. Losses to the paper of the reverse from a former mounting.

Kukryniksy is the name of a group of artists - Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiri Krylov and Nikolai Sokolov - who knew each other after having studied together at the Moscow Art School from 1921 - 23.
An assessment report from the Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences (CICS) is available for this work.