Lot 136: POPKOV, VIKTOR (1932-1974), Artist's Wife by the Mirror, signed, inscribed in Cyrillic "Eskiz k kartine "Pered zerkalom" and dated 1973 on the reverse.

POPKOV, VIKTOR (1932-1974), Artist's Wife by the Mirror, signed, inscribed in Cyrillic "Eskiz k kartine "Pered zerkalom" and dated 1973 on the reverse, Oil on cardboard, 49.5 by 79.5 cm.
The present lot is a study for the 1973 painting In Front of the Mirror. The Artist’s Wife , currently in the collection of the V. and A. Vasnetsov Art Museum, Vyatka.

Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist’s family by the present owner.
Private collection, UK.

Exhibited: Severity of Style , MacDougall’s, London, 1-14 May 2015.

Literature: Viktor Popkov. A Russian Painter of Genius , London, Unicorn Press, 2013, p. 360, illustrated.