Michel CHEMIAKINE (b. 1943) The transvestite Ink and watercolor on paper Annotations in ink Signed, dated and titled in Cyrillic in upper right: 1973/Paris Height 29.5 cm - Width 29.5 cm Provenance: Cornette de Saint-Cyr sale, December 13, 1976, Drouot-Orsay, no. 28 Born in Moscow in 1943, Chemiakine was a Russian sculptor, painter and theater designer, and a controversial representative of the non-conformist art tradition in Saint Petersburg. In 1971, he was forced into exile from the Soviet Union for failing to conform to the standards of Soviet socialist realism. He settled in France and published Apollon-77, an almanac of post-Stalinist art, poetry and photography. In 1981, he moved to New York and now lives in France. The work we present is dedicated to traversti Sandra.