Lev Kropivnitsky, Russian Soviet, 1922 to 1994, color pencil painting on paper depicting a Figurative still life, 1978. Signed lower left. Dated, may 18, 1978, lower right. Lev Evgenievich Kropivnitsky is an artist, graphic artist and poet, one of the most important masters of the Lianozovsky group, the first of the artistic centers of Moscow unofficial art, born during the Thaw era. One of a kind artwork.