Vasily Sitnikov

Vasily Yakovlevich Sitnikov (Russian: Василий Яковлевич Ситников; August 19, 1915 – November 28, 1987)^[1] was a Russian painter.

He was a post-war Soviet Nonconformist Art of Russia, well known in Moscow artistic milieus.^[2] His work is in the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA),^[3] and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.^[4]

Sitnikov was born in Novo-Rakitino, Tambov Governorate in 1915.^[5] He lived in New York City until his death in New York 1987.^[5] In 2002 Andrei Zagdansky produced a feature-length documentary Vasya about the life and art of Vasily Sitnikov.^[6]