AUCTION 32: APRIL 2022 DECORATIVE AND FINE ART SALE

A VLADIMIR YAKOVLEV RUSSIAN PAINTING FEMALE PORTRAIT

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Start price: $500

Estimated price: $700 - $900

Buyer's premium:

Vladimir Yakovlev (Russian, Soviet, 1934 – 1998), pastel and ink on cardboard double-sided drawing depicting a woman with blue eyes, circa 1966. On the reverse contains an abstract drawing of a female figure. Unsigned, inscribed on the back. Framed.

Provenance: Collection of the Bakhchanyan Family.

Vladimir Igorevich Yakovlev was a Russian nonconformist artist, one of the most prominent representatives of the generation of the "Sixties" and unofficial Moscow art. The grandson of the painter Mikhail Nikolayevich Yakovlev, a member of the Union of Russian Artists.

Provenance: gifted in 1965 by young Vladimir Yakovlev to another Russian artist and personal friend Vagrich Bakhchanyan. Purchased from Bakhchanyan in 2008 by the recent owner.

Dimensions: 12 63/64 x 9 13/16 in., (33 x 25 cm.)

Condition: Excellent.