Bidspirit auction | Yakovlev V.I.

Yakovlev V.I. - Self-portrait.. Year:  1992 Technique:  Pastel on paper. Size:  39,7х28. Yakovlev Vladimir Igorevich (1934, Nizhny Novgorod region - 1998, Moscow).  The artist is a nonconformist. He did not receive any professional education; as a painter, he developed independently, largely under the influence of impressions from the Western art avant-garde, examples of which were demonstrated in Moscow during the VI World Festival of Youth and Students. His first personal exhibition was a one-day exhibition organized (together with E.A. Steinberg) at the F.M. Dostoevsky Museum in 1963, and the exhibition “Russian avant-garde in today's Moscow” at the Gmurzhinska Gallery (Cologne; 1970) was the first foreign exhibition. Since 1968, Yakovlev's works have been regularly exhibited around the world. In 1995, his personal exhibition took place in the State Tretyakov Gallery. In 1990-1991, the artist’s works took part in the exhibition “Other Art. Moscow 1956-1976”, organized by the State Tretyakov Gallery and the State Russian Museum.