Gregori Maiofis
Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows

ArtistRussian, born 1970
CultureRussian
Titles
  • Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows
  • from the series Proverbs
Date2005
MediumBromoil print
DimensionsImage: 19 1/4 × 20 1/8 in. (48.9 × 51.1 cm)
Sheet: 23 × 21 7/8 in. (58.4 × 55.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 2008
Object number2009.5
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[De Santos Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 2009.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Photo Forum 2008," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lower Brown Corridor, September 24, 2008 - January 12, 2009.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil on verso lower right: "POLITICS MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS / UNIQUE BROMOIL VARIATION ON '79 "SLAVICH" paper / 1/1 2003 / (signatures)"
Signed in pencil on verso lower right in Russian and English: "Maiofis"

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