Painting for the Grave: the Early Work of Boris Sveshnikov October 9, 2008

This exhibit focuses on oil paintings and drawings produced between 1940 and 1961 by the Soviet artist Boris Petrovich Sveshnikov (1927-1998). During this period Sveshnikov developed his signature idiosyncratic style and produced a large number of his most intense artworks. All works in the exhibition are part of the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union.