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127 - Boris Abramovitch ZABOROV (Minsk, 1935 - Paris, 2021) Judith…
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Boris Abramovitch ZABOROV (Minsk, 1935 - Paris, 2021) Judith with the head of Holofernes (1966) Oil on wood, signed, titled and dated on the back in Cyrillic. Framed. H. 62 x W. 35 cm. Provenance The artist's family. History The year 1962 was marked by one of the most significant events in Soviet cultural life: the publication in the magazine "Novy Mir" of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's story "A Day of Ivan Denissovich". Against this backdrop of intellectual ferment, what was then known as "unofficial art" was already asserting itself on the fringes of institutions. In order to give form to an inner experience that was no longer reducible to conventional languages, it called for a transformation of the visual arts, an intensification of expression capable of conveying a more direct, almost more urgent message. Boris Zaborov's works from this period include "Judith with the Head of Holofernes", "ZK" and "The Fall of Icarus". These compositions bear witness to a plastic and existential quest that found a particular echo in the artistic context shared at the time by several artists of this generation, including Oleg Tselkov, with whom Zaborov maintained close ties at the time. Long-time friends, they belonged to the same milieu and shared, each in his own way, a questioning of the human figure, seen as a place of tension, deformation and expressive intensity. Although their careers are rooted in the same historical context, their approaches are distinctly different. While Boris Zaborov gradually moved towards a more interior and memorial approach, Oleg Tselkov continued to explore the theme of the figure with remarkable consistency, a theme he would develop throughout his career. These works bear witness to a moment of human closeness and artistic contemporaneity, where, in the same period, trajectories that were destined to diverge took shape.
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Auction time 06/05/2026 at 11:00 AM
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