Anatoly Zverev (Russian, 1931-1986) oil on cardboard female portrait. Signed upper right and dated 1975. Framed. Anatoly Zverev was an ingenious Russian artist and still is the legend of Moscow's art life of the second half of the 20th century. The famous art collector George Costakis called Zverev "the Russian Van Gogh", the painter Robert Falk said that "each touch of his brush is priceless". Today Zverev's heritage includes more than 30 thousand works, the genius of Zverev is polymorphic, comprehensive, and inexhaustible.