*SVESHNIKOV, BORIS (1927-1998) Worshipping the Ass. Oil on canvas, 83 by 108 cm. Executed in the early 1950s. Provenance:Collection of Galina Polyakova, wife of the artist Borukh Shteinberg. Private collection, Europe. Exhibited:Drugoe iskusstvo. Moscow 1956-76, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, 1990-1991. Boris Petrovich Sveshnikov, Gallery New Hermitage, Moscow, 10 July-17 August 2007. Literature:Exhibition catalogue,Drugoe iskusstvo. Moscow 1956-76, Moscow, Interbuk, 1991, p. 156, listed. Exhibition catalogue,Boris Petrovich Sveshnikov, Moscow, Gallery New Hermitage, 2007, p. 41, listed. For further information on this work, see V. Dudakov,Boris Sveshnikov. Svobodnyi v mire nesvobodnykh, Moscow, Galart, 2009, p. 10.