VLADIMIR IGOREVICH YAKOVLEV, mixed media on paper laid on paper panel, signed and dated -73.
Portrait of a woman. 58,5 x 39 cm.
Ei tutkittu ilman kehyksiä.
Stig Fredrikson collection, acquired directly from the artist in Moscow c. 1973.
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)