Lot 593: Vitaly Komar (b. 1943) and Aleksandr Melamid (b. 1945)

Vitaly Komar (b. 1943) and Aleksandr Melamid (b. 1945)
God and the Night
seven panels: four panels, watercolour on paper laid down on board; two panels, watercolour and gold paint on paper laid down on board; one panel, paper laid down on board with oil on board insert
48 x 120 in. (121.9 x 304.8 cm.); overall, 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm.), each panel

Madrid, Moriarty Gallery, Komar and Melamid, 1988.
Barcelona, René Metras Gallery, Komar and Melamid, 1989, no. 3.

Exhibition catalogue, Komar and Melamid - Poems on Death - Fantasy of Eclecticism, Barcelona, 1989, illustrated no. 3.

Kicken Pauseback Gallery, Cologne.
Moriarty Gallery, Madrid.
René Metras Gallery, Barcelona.
Private Collection, Paris.

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