Oil on canvas. Titled and signed in Cyrillic lower right. Titled on verso. Framed.

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Lot 246

Viennese Transit

Oil on canvas. Titled and signed in Cyrillic lower right. Titled on verso. Framed.

26 x 52 inches (66 x 132.1 cm).

Moscow, 1998:

Est: $1,000 - $2,000

This large canvas humorously riffs on the popular idea that almost every Soviet-Jewish immigrant transiting in Vienna on their way to Israel from the USSR was either a pianist or a violinist.