PURYGIN, LEONID 1951-1995 Self-Immolation of Lev signed and titled. Oil on panel, 238 by 159 cm. Provenance: Eduard Nakhamkin collection. Exhibited: Leonid Purygin, Eduard Nakhamkin Gallery, New York, USA, 1988. Artists of the Russian Underground, London, October 2007. Literature: : Catalogue of the exhibition Leonid Purygin, Eduard Nakhamkin Gallery, New York, USA, 1988, illustrated. A version of this work is illustrated in Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde, Distributed Art Publishers, New York, 1998, p. 218 and Leonid Purygin, Titul Publishers, 1992, p. 82.