Eric Pid (Russian: Владимир Слепян / Эрик Пид; 1930 – 7 July 1998) is a French artist and writer of Russian-Jewish origin.
Son of a repressed and executed Soviet functionary, Vladimir Slepian was born in Prague and resided in Leningrad before moving to Moscow.
Burliuk inspired Slepian to look towards the way Jackson Pollock deposited paint on canvas with broad, lunging, spontaneous gestures.
In 1957 Paris' Right Bank Galerie Daniel Cordier mounted an anonymous exhibition of paintings by Vladimir Slepian, smuggled out of Moscow by its owner.
[2] Slepian sprinted along a roll of paper a hundred meters long, depositing paint in a manner that recalled calligraphy.
He founded a successful translation bureau, explaining his ambition as using his intelligence to put others to work for his benefit, whilst enjoying idleness.
In his only published French text, a short story Fils de chien, Vladimir Slepian writes of a man who decides to become a dog.
Vladimir Slepian’s life served as inspiration for Viktor Atemian, the protagonist of 2007 feature film L’Homme qui marche by Aurélia Georges.