Pen & Ink original drawing, based on the Russian novel “Kotlovan” by Andrei Platonov.
Not Dated
20″ x 34″
Zhdan never finished art school before he started working as a graphic artist in 1968.
He participated in the daring 1974 “nonconformist” art show in Moscow’s Izmailovsky Park. The legendary NY Times journalist Hedrick Smith wrote of the “extraordinary event” noting that Zhdan was “probably the most popular artist” and that10,000 people showed up to see the rare display of modern art deemed “anti-Soviet” by the government. Anything other than Soviet socialist realism was illegal in the USSR until Gorbachev loosened regulations during his “Glasnost” efforts in the mid 1980s.