ANATOLY SLEPYSHEV (1932-2016) Landscape Inscribed in Cyrillic 'Ne to na svete divno ustroeno: veseloe migom obratitsia v petchalnoe, esli tolko dolgo zastoishsia pered nim, i togda bog znaet chto vzbredet v golovu / That's not how the world works: a happy thing will turn into a sad thing if you stay in it for a long time. a happy thing will turn into a sad thing if you stand in front of it for long and God knows what will come into your mind then', quote from Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls (top right); dedication right); dedication by the artist in Cyrillic 'Ot khudozhnika, slugitelia krasoty, krasivoy zhentchine v Noviy 1994 god. T. Slepyshev/ From the artist, servant of beauty, to a beautiful woman on New Year's Day 1994. Т. Slepyshev' oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm painted in 1993-1994 Condition: good overall condition