LOT 332 LEONID SOKOV (RUSSIAN 1941-2018)
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Portrait of Brezhnev ("They exchanged a 'hooligan' for Louis the Corvalan...")Portrait of Brezhnev ("They exchanged a 'hooligan' for Louis the Corvalan...")2005oil on canvas123 x 96 cm (48 3/8 x 37 3/4 in.)unframedsigned and dated along lower right edgePROVENANCEAcquired directly from the artist by the present ownerLOT NOTESThe poem underneath Brezhnev's formal portrait reads: They exchanged a hooligan / For Louis the Corvalan / Where to find such a whore / To exchange Brezhnev for, an extended version of a popular rhyme mocking the 1976 exchange of Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky for Chilian Communist Party leader Louis Corvalan. The original variant of the poem (which reads Where can we find a bitch / To exchange her for Ilyich) was written by prominent dissident and poet Vadim Delaunay after writer Viktor Nekrasov jokingly suggested also exchanging Brezhnev for Pinochet
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