LEONID PURYGIN (RUSSIAN 1951-1996) Birth of Woman, 1991 collage, ink and color pencil on paper 40.5 x 31 cm (16 x 12 1/4 in.) signed lower right, dated lower left EXHIBITEDForbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde, February 1998-April 2002The exhibition traveled to:Pasadena, ArtCenter College of Design, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, February 22 - May 3, 1998Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery, May 15 - June 15, 1999St. Petersburg, The State Russian Museum, February 12 - April 4, 1999Oxford, Ohio, Miami University Art Museum, November 2 - December 12, 1999Brighton, Massachusetts, Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art, October 15 - December 10, 2000Gainesville, University of Florida, Samuel P. Harm Museum of Art, April 12 - July 3, 2005Laramie, University of Wyoming Art Museum, September 8 - November 18, 2007St. Peter, Gustavus Adolphus College, Hillstrom Museum of Art, September 3 - November 10, 2008LITERATUREForbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde (Curatorial Assistance, Distributed Art Publishers: Los Angeles, New York, 1998), ex. cat., p. 244 (illustrated) (incorrectly dated 1989)