ANATOLY ZVEREV (1931 - 1986) Portrait of a woman with auburn hair

signed with initials in Cyrillic and dated ‘AZ 65’ (lower left) watercolour on paper 41.4 x 29 cm 1965 Anatoly Zverev (1931-1986), a Russian artist of genius, was and remains a legend of Moscow’s artistic life in the second half of the 20th century. Some collectors called him the ‘Russian Van Gogh’, the painter Robert Falk said that ‘every touch of his brush is priceless’. In 1959, one of his paintings was published in the American magazine ‘Life’, and in 1961, three watercolours by Zverev were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Zverev’s work has been exhibited in New York, Paris, Copenhagen, Vienna, London and Brussels.