Ilya Kabakov (Ukrainian/American, b. 1933) The Flying Komarov, from the Series Ten Characters/Ten Personnages

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Ilya Kabakov (Ukrainian/American, b. 1933)

The Flying Komarov, from the Series Ten Characters/Ten Personnages, Album 6, published under the supervision of Emilia Kabakov, Artprint, Helsinki. Signed and numbered "3/200 I. Kabakov" on the title page. Thirty-two page portfolio including twenty-one offset color lithographs mounted on board, each 20 x 13 3/4 in., in original box. Condition: Good.

Provenance: A prominent collector of Russian art.

N.B. Accompanied by the book by Ilya Kabakov, Okho. Das Fenster (The Window) (Bern: Benteli Verlag, 1985).

Ilya Kabakov's created one of his most famous and influential albums from the 10 Characters series, in the early 1970s as an unofficial artist working in Moscow. The ten albums tell ten fables: they suggest ten positions from which Homo Sovieticus can react to his world, ten psychological attitudes, ten perspectives on emptiness, ten parodies of the aesthetic traditions through which Kabakov evolved his vocabulary, ten aspects of Kabakov's personality.1

1. http://www.ilya-emilia-kabakov.com/index.php/albums
Estimate $800-1,200


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