EVGENY KROPIVNITSKY (1893 - 1979) Set of 9 drawings (1 double-sided)

(i) Double-sided work Vase of flowers and Rural Landscape signed on both sides in Cyrillic and dated ‘E. Kropivnitsky 1977’ (lower right and lower left) watercolour on paper 20 x 24.8 cm (ii) Spring landscape signed in Cyrillic ‘E. Kropivnitsky’ (lower left) and dated ‘1977’ (lower right) watercolour on paper 18.5 x 25 cm (iii) Spring landscape signed in Cyrillic and dated ‘E. Kropivnitsky 1977’ (lower left) watercolour on paper 19 x 28.5 cm (iv) In the forest signed in Cyrillic ‘E. Kropivnitsky’ (lower left) pencil on paper 22 x 29 cm (v) Vase of flowers signed in Cyrillic ‘E. Kropivnitsky’ (lower right) and dated ‘1977’ (lower left) watercolour on paper 20.2 x 28.3 cm (vi) Sansevieria in a vase signed in Cyrillic ‘E. Kropivnitsky’ (lower left) and dated ‘1977’ (lower right) pencil on paper 18.6 x 22.8 cm (vii) Sansevieria in a vase signed with monogram in Cyrillic and dated ‘E. K 77’ (lower right) green felt pen on paper 29 x 20 cm (viii) Sansevieria in a vase signed in Cyrillic and dated ‘E. Kropivnitsky 1977’ (lower left) pencil and green felt pen on paper 20.5 x 28.8 cm (ix) Still Life signed in Cyrillic ‘E. Kropivnitsky’ (lower left) and dated ‘1977’ (lower right) felt pen on paper 18.7 x 28.5 cm (image) executed in 1977 Evgeny Kropivnitsky, a Moscow painter and poet, initially worked in a variety of styles, gravitating mainly towards cubism and expressionism, close to the painters of the ‘Jack of Diamonds' group. In the 1950s, he became one of the founders and leaders of the Lianozovo group of non- conformist artists, based first in the Kropivnitsky house and then in the flat of Kropivnitsky's son-in-law, Oskar Rabin, in Lianozovo. The artist's works can be found in the Russian National Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.