ZEVIN EVGENY (B. 1947) Funeral of Art

signed, titled and dated in Cyrillic ‘Pokhorony isskustva [Funeral of Art]/Zevin E.M./1968’ (on the reverse) oil on canvas painted in 1968 100 x 80 cm ‘Evgeny Zevin’s paintings delight me with their festive character, their extraordinary brightness of colour, their spiritual generosity, their humour and their irony,’ says the artist’s friend, the writer Fazil Iskander.