Timur Novikov, Russian, 1958 to 2002, Warm Island, acrylic on yellow silk. Signed, titled, dated 1986 lower center. Provenance: Trinity International Auctions & Appraisals LLC, May International Fine Art Auction 5.20.2017, Lot 27. Timur Petrovich Novikov was a Russian artist, founder of the St. Petersburg new Academy of Fine Arts. In 1982, Timur Novikov created the New Artists group. The first members of the group are Georgy Guryanov, Evgeny Kozlov, Oleg Kotelnikov, Ivan Sotnikov, Kirill Khazanovich. Stylistically, the new artists were parallel to such Western European movements in art as the New Wild or Neue Wilde, Germany, East Village, USA, Figuration Libre or Free Figuration, France,Transavantgarde, Italy and such phenomena as the new figurativeness, new wave, new romanticism. Russian Non Conformist Avant Garde Fine Art For Collectors.