Vladimir Borisovich Yankilevsky (Russian, 1938-2018) pastel painting on paper, Composition, 1989. Signed and dated lower right. One of a kind artwork. Provenance: The item was withdrawn from the Macdougall auction, London, November 30, 2007. Vladimir Yankilevsky was a Russian artist known mostly for his participation in the Soviet Nonconformist Art movement of the 1960s through the 1980s. Perhaps his most famous works are his triptychs, works that are difficult to classify, occupying a unique middle ground between painting, and sculpture, similar in some ways to Rauschenberg's combines.