Lot 142: Igor Shelkovsky, b.1937

Igor Shelkovsky, b.1937
vase of flowers, 1998
painted wood
height: 176cm., 69Din.

Shelkovsky edited the unofficial Soviet art journal A-ya from 1979 to 1985. Initially starting his career in Russia as a set designer, after his emigration to Paris in 1967 he turned to sculpture and two-dimensional reliefs of which the offered lot is characteristic. He exhibits widely in Europe and Russia.