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] In 2002 Andrei Zagdansky produced a feature-length documentary Vasya about the life and art of Vasily Sitnikov.