Vladimir Igorevich YAKOVLEV, pastel crayon on paper, signed.
Still life with a flower. 42 x 29 cm.
Not examined out of frame. The signature is faded.
The collection of Hans Björkegren, journalist, translator and writer.
Vladimir Igorevich Yakolev (1934–1998) is one of the representatives of "underground" art. He was a grandson of the landscape painter Michael Yakovlev’s (1880-1941). Yakovlev attended Vasily Sitnikov's workshop. In the late fifties he joined a group of Moscow nonconformists. He mainly painted in gouache on paper or hardboard, preferring constrained, cool tones. His portraits, still-lives, and well-known "flowers" provoke a sense of deep lonely existence in the picturesque space, the concealed energy of resistance. (Leonid Shishkin Gallery)