Title: Still Life by the Window
Artist: Vladimir Yankilevsky
Work Date: 1958
Materials: Oil on cardboard
Size: 64 x 75 cm
Additional information: Signed В. Я., dated 1958, titled Still life by the window on the reverse
Bibliography: Vladimir Yankilevsky’s Monograph, Anatomy of Feelings,
Somogy éditions d’art Publishers, Paris, 2010, page 96
Vladimir Yankilevsky was born on the 15th of February 1938 in Moscow to an artist’s family. As an artist, he was educated at the Moscow Middle Art School, and then at the Moscow Print Industry Institute, from which he graduated in 1962. In the autumn of the same year Yankilevsky participated in the scandalously notorious Manege exhibition visited by Khrushchev, who cracked down on avant-garde artists in order to put an end to any de-Stalinisation of the Soviet system.
