Anatoly Zverev, Portrait of a young woman, 1985. Photo of Anatoly Zverev
Anatoly Zverev (1931-1986). Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation exhibition is presented at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, NYC. The show is on view until December 17. Anatoly Zverev was one of the leading figures of the non-conformist artists group, working in the post-war period in the Soviet Union. He produced thousands of paintings, drawings and illustrations.
Zverev was born in Moscow in 1931. A nonconformist in art and life, he was expelled from Art School 1905 after several months. Nonetheless, he continued his artistic education by frequenting various studios and museums including the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The artist won a gold medal at the international visual arts workshop held during the Sixth World Festival of Youth and Students in 1957. In subsequent years, he garnered more success and acclaim as he participated in apartment exhibitions and collaborated with a prominent collector of Russian Avant-Garde George Costakis. Though Zverev never traveled abroad, his debut solo show was held in 1965 at the Galerie Motte in Paris.
During his lifetime, Zverev only had one solo exhibition in the Soviet Union in 1984. After his death is pieces were showcased in many group and solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world, including prominent Russian state art galleries and museums. Meanwhile a big body of his works not appreciated in the USSR, were brought abroad by many art connoisseurs. Today, Zverev art can be found in such museums museums as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey; the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, etc.
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Kolodzei Art Foundation exhibition features his artworks from the 1950s to the mid-1980s. The exhibition is held in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the Kolodzei Art Foundation and the 75th anniversary of the Harriman Institute.
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