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Self-Portrait
1957 · Watercolor on paper
23 3/8 x 16 1/2" (59.4 x 41.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Anatoly Timofeevich Zverev
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WA-00030237
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None documented
3
Institutional Exhibitions
6
Works in Collection
12
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Contemporary Soviet Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974
No image
Drawings Recently Acquired for the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1957
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Recent European Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1956–1957
Source Registry (1)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Anatoly Timofeevich Zverev was a Russian painter and draftsman whose gestural, expressionistic approach to figuration and landscape emerged from the postwar period. Working primarily in ink and watercolor, he developed a distinctive fluid line and spontaneous mark-making that prioritized immediacy over finish. His practice engaged abstraction and representation in equal measure, drawing on Soviet modernist traditions while maintaining a deeply personal visual language rooted in drawing.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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6 published of 12 catalogued · 2 with image
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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