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Puppeteer
A haunting and theatrical original lithograph by Dmitry Sandjiev. A puppeteer’s shadow dominates the foreground as surreal figures perform in a garden beyond, seen through an open window.
- Medium: Original Lithograph
- Artist: Dmitry Sandjiev (Russian-Kalmyk, born 1949)
- Edition: 4 of 75 — Extremely Limited
- Series: Making a Film, 1981
- Condition: Excellent
- Provenance: Private Collection
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Dmitry Sandjiev is People’s Artist of the Russian Federation and Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts. His works are held in the permanent collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Faber-Castell Collection in Nuremberg.
Puppeteer belongs to the Making a Film series, one of Sandjiev’s most celebrated bodies of work. It explores the boundary between control and performance, reality and illusion. A vast shadowed figure dominates the composition, seen from inside a darkened room looking out through an open window. Beyond, in a sun-bright garden, small figures move. A horned creature brandishes a sword. A robed figure raises its arms. Balloons drift upward. The puppeteer controls it all from the shadows, unseen yet fully present.
This is impression number 4 from an original 1981 lithograph edition of just 75, pencil signed and titled by the artist. Later digital reproductions of this subject appeared in 2016 in larger editions. This original 1981 lithograph is considerably rarer.
