The Moscow Museum reported the loss of a drawing by the artist Yankilevsky

In the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the graphic sheet "Drawing for a Triptych" disappeared, the loss was discovered when the exhibits were being prepared for permanent storage in the storeroom. This was reported to RBC in the press service of the museum.

The drawing was created in 1970, its author is Vladimir Yankilevsky. The museum assured that they had already notified the department of culture of the capital's mayor's office and law enforcement agencies. The police have already inspected the repository of the museum fund, the museum staff began an unscheduled inspection of all the works that are stored in the storerooms.

“I think that this is some kind of misunderstanding and there is a drawing. I think that this misunderstanding is not worth inflating a whole story about the loss, ”Rimma Solod, the wife of the artist, told RBC.

Yankelevsky was a Soviet and Russian noncorformist artist. His paintings are kept in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pompidou Center (Paris) and the Tate Modern (London). During an exhibition at the Manege in 1962, he was among the artists criticized by Nikita Khrushchev. Yankelevsky died in 2018, he was 79 years old.