ANNENKOV Yuri Georges (1889-1974) Collage on cardboard with - Lot 126

ANNENKOV Yuri Georges (1889-1974) Collage on cardboard with burnt paper coins Nikolas 1st Signed and dated 1921 bottom center 33.2 x 24 cm In the late '50s and early '60s, art lovers and museums discovered the Russian avant-garde of the early twentieth century and invited emigrant painters to participate in retrospective exhibitions. Annenkov was invited to the exhibition = "50 ans de collages - du cubisme à nos jours" at the Musée de Saint-Etienne in 1964. Interest in the avant-garde spread to galleries, which were more interested in presenting works from the period than recent compositions. Emigrant painters who had not been able to take with them works from before their departure from Russia created new works in the spirit of these. Such is the case of Annenkov, who, caught up in the game, produced a series of collages in the 60s, dating them from 1917 to 1923. Annenkov's collages were exhibited in galleries such as Fleiss, Pinés and Chauvelin, using old materials such as Tsarist coins, photographs and newspapers from the period, engravings, scraps of fabric, iron and string. There are some thirty of these works, inspired by the Futurism of the 1920s, and they form a perfectly coherent whole in Annenkov's oeuvre. The Thyssen Bornemisza Foundation and the Centre Pompidou have one of these collages in