Lot 121: Yuri Leiderman (Russian, born 1963) Upright Little Mice 'Difinizba - Small Semi-Fascist Party in the South' unframed

Upright Little Mice 'Difinizba - Small Semi-Fascist Party in the South'
acrylic on canvas
144.5 x 193cm (56 7/8 x 76in).
unframed

PROVENANCE:
With City Gallery, Melbourne
Purchased from the above by the present owner (Private collection, Australia)

EXHIBITED:
Melbourne, City Gallery, Made in Formani - Current Soviet Avant Garde Art, March 1990

The above exhibition included works by Yuri Albert, Andrei Filippov, Sven Gundlakh, Alexander Julikoff, Yuri Leiderman, Sergei Mironenko, Vladimir Mironenko, Sergei Volkov, Larisa Zvezdochetova and Medical Hermeneutics (Sergei Anufriev, Yuri Leiderman and Pavel Pepperstein).

Yuri Leiderman's work has been closely associated with the Moscow Conceptualist movement and he was one of the founding members of the 'Inspection Medical Hermeneutics' group which he left in 1990. He is also a writer and was awarded the Andrei Belyi literature prize in 2005.