Lot 85: * SEMENYUK, YURI (1922-2006) Near the Village

* SEMENYUK, YURI (1922-2006) Near the Village, signed and dated 1976, also further signed, inscribed Cyrillic "g. Yaroslavl", titled and dated on the reverse. Oil on cardboard, 44.5 by 59.5 cm.
Provenance: With the salon of the Art Fund of the USSR (label on the reverse). Acquired directly from the artist by the Gallery “Zamoskvorechye” (presently “Na Shabolovke”), Moscow.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in Moscow, 2001.
Important private collection, USA.

Exhibited: Soviet Art in Conflict. The Artist as an Agent of Social Change , Springville Museum of Art, Springville, USA, 12 September 2007–1 February 2008.