Original lithograph ( pair to the next item), titled Carnival plate V , was executed by Mihail Mikhailovich Chemiakin or Shemyakin (Russian: Михаил Михайлович Шемякин; born 4 May 1943), famous Russian-American painter, stage designer, sculptor and publisher, and a controversial representative of the nonconformist art tradition of St. Petersburg.
Full artist's biography read in Wikipedia under following link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Chemiakin
Sources: Mnukhin, Lev; Avril, Maria and Losskaya, Veronika (2008—2010). Russian Emigrants in France (1919—2000). Biographical Vocabulary in Three Volumes. Moscow;
"About Mihail Chemiakin's Musee Imaginaire".
The Grove Dictionary of Art, by Jane Shoaf Turner (Ed.), Grove's Dictionaries;
on-line Wikipedia.
Inscription: signed by the author in pencil under imge lower left; mumbered under image lower left.
Technique: colored lithograph on paper, matted and framed.
Measurements: image 13" x 13" (33 x 33 cm), matted and framed 17 1/4" x 17 1/4" (43,8 x 43,8 cm)
Condition: very good. |