Bidspirit auction | Anatoly Timofeevich Zverev (1931-1986) ”Self-portrait”.

Anatoly Timofeevich Zverev (1931-1986) ”Self-portrait”. 1953. Paper, ink. 28.9 x 20.3 cm. On the reverse side is an ink drawing of a ”Female figure”. Expert opinion of Silaev V.S. - Anatoly Timofeevich Zverev, 1931-1986. Born on November 3, 1931 in Sokolniki, Moscow, in the family of a Civil War invalid, his mother is a worker. He studied at the drawing school at the lessons of the graphic artist Nikolai Vasilyevich Sinitsyn (a student of A.P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva). In 1954, he entered the Moscow Regional Art College in Memory of 1905, from where he was soon expelled for bohemian-anarchic behavior. Participant of apartment exhibitions 1959-1962. His first foreign exhibition was in 1965 at the Moth Gallery, Paris. Anatoly Zverev's creative path was in many ways a challenge to philistine ”common sense”, a semi-conscious self-rejection of the deadening bureaucracy of established norms and generally accepted ideas about art. The influence of his innovative creative experience on all modern painting is still noticeable. The culmination, the maximum personal rise of his work took place at the turn of the 50 -60s. and was a kind of living embodiment of the spirit of free ”independent underground” trends in art. He was an undoubted leader in the context of the nonconformism of the 60s, acting at the same time as Impressionist No. 1. But he remained true to his individuality and did not allow himself to be drawn into rigid ideological schemes and did not show blind loyalty to any art groups, although the underground environment of that time was often formed precisely from such lonely, non-institutionalized artists. Among the majority of artists of his generation and his allies in independent art, he stands out for the fact that he does not fit into any of the communities that have developed there. His works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow. Museum of Contemporary Art ART4.RU, Moscow. The State Historical Museum, Moscow. The New Museum, St. Petersburg. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Campus, New Jersey, USA. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA. The Bar-Gera Collection, Cologne, Germany. The Kostaki Collection, Athens, Greece. The work comes from the collection of G.D. Kostaki. The drawings under study belong to Zverev's early, unique cycle of rapid, full-scale sketches. They amaze with their maturity, unexpected execution, depth, perfection, invention, expression and amazing virtuosity. Zverev's drawings ”Self-portrait” and ”Female Figure” are of artistic value and have museum significance.