VLADIMIR STERLIGOV (1904-1973) Portrait

signed with monogram in Cyrillic ‘VS’ (lower left) and dated ‘70’ (lower right); inscribed in Cyrillic, ownership stamp of Igor Dichenko collection (on the reverse) coloured pencil on paper 32.4 x 22.8 cm executed in 1970 Provenance: Collection of Igor Dichenko (Ihor Dychenko) (1946-2015), Soviet and Ukrainian collector, art historian, and painter; one of the ideologists of the Ukrainian avant-garde, Kyiv. Private collection, Europe