ARTIST: Anatoly Zinovyevich Itkin (Russia, born 1931) NAME: Still Life with Mask YEAR: 1999 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Excellent. SIGHT SIZE: 12.5 x 19.5 inches / 31 x 49 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed SIGNED: Upper right CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 113434 US Shipping $29 + insurance. AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US Anatoly Zinovyevich Itkin (Russia, born 1931) Anatoly Itkin born 28 January 1931 in Moscow. In 1950 he graduated from the Moscow Art School in 1956 - graphic faculty of the Moscow Art Institute. Surikov (portrait studio of Professor BA Dehterova). Taught at the Faculty Eugene E. A. Kibrik , M. S. Rodionov , P. Suvorov, P. Rayner. From 1954 he worked as an illustrator in many Moscow publishing houses, for a total of his creative life master illustrated a number of books - from fairy tales for little children to Russian and foreign classics. Anatoly Z. Itkin - a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, Honored Artist of Russia, winner of many competitions, and his works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Pushkin Museum, Central Pushkin Museum in St. Petersburg, the State Museum of Literature, Literary Museum A. Tolstoy in Samara, the Museum-Reserve "Abramtsevo", Tver Regional Museum and in private collections in Russia, Yugoslavia, Israel, the U.S., Germany and South Korea. Years go by, times change, but the artist remains faithful to his creative credo: "My realism is not characteristic of any excessive grotesque or emotional excesses. Virtues to me are honesty and integrity. And if they are present in my picture, but still expressive in addition, I think a good figure. Since my student years, I learned a postulate that we should not engage in self-expression specifically. Better address the needs of the depicted, and the problem of self-expression will be decided in the process itself ». https://fantlab.ru/art186