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Medium: Oil Support: Canvas Artist: Dimitri M. Krasnopevtsev Artist Dates: 1925-1995 Country of Origin: Russia Title & Description: Painting depicts arrangement with water cans. On back, export sticker from Ministry of Culture to export from USSR. Signature: K-71 Date of Work: 1971 Frame: Original Work Size: 19.25"W x 16.5"W Frame Size: 24"H x 21"W Weight: 4.8lb Condition: Painting has not been retouched Meta: art, painting Artist Biography: Russian artist. Two years ago the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art exhibited his work - an honour rarely given to an artist in his lifetime.Krasnopevtsev was a Francophile. His flat at his second address in Moscow, at Cheryomushky, was filled with French books, pictures, photographs and a huge map of Paris which, said his friends, he knew as if he lived there. In fact he had never been to Paris and spoke neither French nor any other foreign language.In 1968 Alexander Glezer, his agent, organised an exhibition of dissident artists in Moscow, which included three paintings by Krasnopevtsev. The same day three members of the Moscow City Party Committee came and banned all three works. One painting showed a jug with a plant. But the plant emerged not through the jug's mouth but from the wall. Glezer asked why Krasnopevtsev's work had been banned. "Oh, come on," the commissars answered. "It's quite clear, he wanted to show that, despite all our bans, they - dissident artists - will get through anyway."Krasnopevtsev lived modestly. Most of his foreign currency he received for his work was taken by the State. Under Mikhail Gorbachev, the State finally recognised him, and two books were written about him and published by state publishing houses in Moscow which used to forbid even mentioning him in books about other artists.