Lucio FANTI (born 1945). "Inauguration of the Mayakoswki Monument, Moscow, July 29, 1958", 1975. Acrylic on canvas, titled, signed and dated on the back. Height 100.5 cm - Width : 81 cm Provenance : - Private collection of a member of the collector's collective La Peau du Chat, then by descent. Note : Lucio Fanti, an Italian artist deeply influenced by ideology, began a series of Soviet iconography when he moved to Paris, depicting figures from the USSR to denounce the excesses of the regime. His subject is the poet Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky. In his paintings, he transposes his taste for theater into highly theatrical compositions, where mists and frozen figures recall the world of the stage. In 1968, he took part in the Salon de la Jeune Peinture with the Figuration Narrative painters gathered around the critic Gerald Gassiot Talabot. Since the late 1970s, he has also created numerous theater sets for leading European directors such as Vincent, Jourdheuil, Olmi, Sobel, Grüber, Bondy and Stein, with whom he won the 1986 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design.