Vladimir Yakovlev. Booklet of the exhibition . Painting. Graphics. Autograph To Vladimir Aleynikov.

Vladimir Yakovlev. Booklet of the exhibition . Painting. Graphics. Autograph To Vladimir Aleynikov.
Moscow Soviet cultural Foundation. Diaghilev center. 1990 Edition of 674 copies. 19 x 22 cm folded. 19 x 88 cm in the unfolded. Duplex printing. Dirt, tears. 

Foreword By V. Rakitin, M. Dudinsky, V. Aleynikov.

Vladimir Igorevich Yakovlev (15 March 1934, Balakhna — 10 October 1998, Moscow) was a Russian artist, representative of unofficial art.

Born on March 15, 1934 in the city of Balakhna (Gorky region). Son of Igor Mikhailovich and Veronika Yakovlev. Grandson of landscape painter Mikhail Yakovlev (1880-1941), one of the founders of Russian impressionism. After the family moved to Moscow in 1944, he worked as a courier in the publishing house "Art", visited the workshop of Vasily Sitnikov. In the 1950s, he worked as a Retoucher in the publishing house "Art" and studied in the Studio of the artist Vasily Sitnikov. Since 1945, he was observed and periodically treated in psychiatric hospitals. During the last thirty years of his life, he was almost blind. In Moscow, he met the artists Mikhail Grobman (who left notes about him in his diaries), Anatoly Zverev, the poet Gennady Aigi (Yakovlev makes drawings for his poems, in 1966 creates a portrait of the poet), the composer and harpsichordist Andrei Volkonsky (in his apartment, an exhibition of Yakovlev's works takes place in 1959), met with the Czech avant-garde theorist Indřich Khalupecky.

In 1963, the first official exhibition of Yakovlev in the USSR was organized — a one-day exhibition together with Eduard Steinberg in the Museum of F. M. Dostoevsky. Abroad, the artist's works were presented at the exhibition "Russian avant-garde in today's Moscow" at the Gmurzhinsk Gallery (Cologne, 1970), and others. 

Yakovlev wrote mainly in gouache on paper or hardboard, preferring restrained, cool tones. He went through a period of non-objective painting (lyrical abstractionism in the manner of J. p. Blavatsky). Pollock), survived the influence of Picasso. Mature things of the artist are created in the course of the" new figuration " — an avant-garde movement that returned from abstraction to the subject, perceived with a new drama. His portraits, still lifes, as well as the famous "flowers" impress with the depth of a lonely existence in a picturesque space, the hidden energy of resistance. 

Vladimir Yakovlev's works are stored in many Russian and foreign museums, in private collections in Russia and abroad. In 1990-1991, the artist's works were shown at the exhibition "Other art. Moscow 1956-1976", organized by the Tretyakov gallery and Museum.

In 1995, he had a solo exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.