gouache watercolor and crayon on paper
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
signed lower right

PROVENANCEAcquired directly from the artistPrivate Collection, ConnecticutDimitri Petrov was born in Philadelphia in 1919. He was a Dada and Surrealist painter, a member of the Woodstock Artists Association, and editor/publisher of publications including the Prospero series of poet-artist books and Instead, a surrealist newspaper.  Growing up in an anarchist colony in New Jersey, Petrov later studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and printmaking with Stanley Hayter at Ateleier 17 Workshop.  Petrov exhibited at Hugo Gallery in New York City, Stravinsky Gallery, and Maeght Gallery.  His work was also exhibited at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Annual (1944), Iris Clert, the Corocoran Gallery Biennial, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.Petrov's paintings are in the collections of the Woodstock Artists Association, Indiana University, Rutgers University, Swarthmore, Brandeis, Pace, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Penn. State, Reading Museum, the William Penn Museum in Harrisburg, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Print Club, the Pasadena Museum in California, the Oklahoma Museum, the Bridgeport University Museum in Connecticut, the Containier Corp. Collection, AVX Corp. Collection, Lake Placid Art Club, St. Peters College, Syracuse University, Cornell, Grand Rapids Museum in Michigan, Norfolk Museum in Virginia, New Jersey State, State University of New York at New Paltz, and the New Britain Museum of American Art.