Anatoly Belkin, Russian, born 1953, ink on paper drawing Why I do not have a cow? Depicts a cow with various letterings in Russian. Signed lower right and dated. Circa the mid-1970s. Anatoly Pavlovich Belkin is a contemporary Russian artist based in St. Petersburg. He studied art at the Repin Institute of Arts in Saint Petersburg and became one of the youngest members of the Soviet Nonconformist Art movement which consisted of artists who risked government persecution for exhibiting their work at shows not sponsored or sanctioned by the Soviet state. One of his better-known works was the 2004 exhibition Swamp Gold at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. Soviet Russian Nonconformist and Unofficial Art Collectibles. Provenance: Anna Feltsman Estate. Feltsman family: Oscar Feltsman 1921-2013 was a Russian Ukrainian-born composer of Lithuanian Jewish descent. He was the father of Vladimir Feltsman, born in 1952 a Russian-American classical pianist. Anna Feltsman was the first wife of Vladimir Feltsman.

Dimensions: Frame 20 x 18 in. Plate 9 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. All measurements are approximate.