Leonid Lamm
Space Construction
Found at
Sothebys,
New York
Escape Artists: The Non-Conformists Online, Lot 107
5. Oct - 5. Oct 2018
Escape Artists: The Non-Conformists Online, Lot 107
5. Oct - 5. Oct 2018
Estimate: 4.000 - 6.000 USD
Price realised: 15.000 USD
Price realised: 15.000 USD
Description
Leonid Lamm
1928-2017
SPACE CONSTRUCTION
signed with monogram and dated '54-55' l.l.; further signed and titled in Cyrillic and dated '1954-55' on the reverse
mixed media on board
Leonid Lamm received his initial education at the Construction Institute of the Moscow City Council, where he studied under Yakov Chernikov, an avant-garde architect and one of the most outstanding representatives of Russian architectural futurism. Thanks to Chernikov and few other avant-garde figures still living in Moscow in the 40s, he was introduced to the artistic concepts of Vladimir Tatlin and Kazimir Malevich, whose artistic legacy was st
After graduating from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute in 1954, Lamm started a successful career as an illustrator, but like many of his contemporaries, remained discreet about his own creative pursuits. After an unexpected arrest and a three-year imprisonment, the artist emigrated to New York in 1982.
Executed in the first years of the Khrushchev Thaw, 'Space Construction' enters into polemics with the aesthetics of the Russian avant-garde and the architectural forms of Chernikov’s designs. Employing the visual language of the avant-garde characterised by an intensive use of colour and abstract geometric compositions, Lamm is paying tribute to the futuristic visions of the constructivists of the 1920s. Nevertheless, having experienced the
mixed media on board
The family of the artist
1928-2017
SPACE CONSTRUCTION
signed with monogram and dated '54-55' l.l.; further signed and titled in Cyrillic and dated '1954-55' on the reverse
mixed media on board
Leonid Lamm received his initial education at the Construction Institute of the Moscow City Council, where he studied under Yakov Chernikov, an avant-garde architect and one of the most outstanding representatives of Russian architectural futurism. Thanks to Chernikov and few other avant-garde figures still living in Moscow in the 40s, he was introduced to the artistic concepts of Vladimir Tatlin and Kazimir Malevich, whose artistic legacy was st
After graduating from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute in 1954, Lamm started a successful career as an illustrator, but like many of his contemporaries, remained discreet about his own creative pursuits. After an unexpected arrest and a three-year imprisonment, the artist emigrated to New York in 1982.
Executed in the first years of the Khrushchev Thaw, 'Space Construction' enters into polemics with the aesthetics of the Russian avant-garde and the architectural forms of Chernikov’s designs. Employing the visual language of the avant-garde characterised by an intensive use of colour and abstract geometric compositions, Lamm is paying tribute to the futuristic visions of the constructivists of the 1920s. Nevertheless, having experienced the
mixed media on board
The family of the artist
Upper estimate price exceeded by more than 100%
This artwork by Leonid Lamm achieved an unexpectedly high price at Sothebys in New York in October 2018. In the Escape Artists: The Non-Conformists Online auction, the work Space Construction sold for USD 15,000.00 (€ 13,236.85) - well above the upper estimate of USD 6,000.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Leonid Lamm - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Adam And Eve, A Pair From The Seventh Heaven Series, which sold at auction in November 2007 for GBP 24,500.00 (€ 34,306.34).
Oberer Schätzpreis um mehr als 100% übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Leonid Lamm erzielte im Oktober 2018 bei Sothebys in New York einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Escape Artists: The Non-Conformists Online wurde die Arbeit Space Construction für USD 15.000,00 (€ 13.236,85) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von USD 6.000,00. Für andere Arbeiten von Leonid Lamm mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Adam And Eve, A Pair From The Seventh Heaven Series beobachtet, die im November 2007 für GBP 24.500,00 (€ 34.306,34) versteigert wurde.
Leonid Lamm - Auction history
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