Vladimir Yakovlev, Russian, Soviet, 1934 to 1998, oil painting on paper depicting a still life with flowers in the Figurative manner. Signed lower to the center. Vladimir Igorevich Yakovlev is a native of Balakha, Nizegoro. He studied in the private studio of Vasily Sitnikov in the 1950s. He became a member of the Moscow City Committee of Graphic Artists in 1976. He took part in exhibitions of the Soviet nonconformist artists. In his lifetime his works were already part of solo and group exhibition in Russia and in the European foreign countries. Today, several of his works are in the possession of the big Russian museums as well as Museum Ludwig in Cologne. One of a kind artwork.