Viktor Zaretsky

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Description

The work "The Road to the Temple" is undoubtedly considered to be a museum exhibit. It colorfully characterizes the Underground art of the 70s. Opposite to the permitted and cultivated Soviet realism, the picture shows a different worldview, a different vision of art, even another technical implementation (different from the official school); in other word, it is a unit of the other artists who could never be strangled by the authorities.

The painting has an absolute investment value, because it is unique of its kind. Qualitative symbolic painting in the Ukrainian Soviet art of the twentieth century is a rare bird.

Provenance: The work was bought at the artist's workshop in Koncha-Zaspa in 1988 by the philanthropist-collector Butsan G.P. from the painter himself.

Literature:

• "The Scales of Destiny of Viktor Zaretskiy" by Lesya Avramenko, 2011, p.213