![]() Stalinism had not died with the Dear Leader. ‘I gave her five thou for the lot.’ Vladimir Tatlin, the great Soviet Constructivist, had died in 1953, months after his tormentor, Joseph Stalin. ‘She’s been hiding her husband’s work under the linoleum of her bedroom all these years.’ He examined his buffed nails. ‘I went to see the widow Tatlin this morning,’ he said, in a patrician drawl not his own. Handsomely coiffed (he had been a hairdresser in a former life), the gallerist was known for spotting early gaps in the market and making money from them. ![]() ![]() Ours was a private Lada, the gallerist having done a deal with its driver. ‘Taxi’, in those days, was a contingent term in the Soviet Union. In September 1988, I found myself in the back of a Moscow taxi with a gallery owner from London, now dead. ![]()
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