Painter, graphic artist. In 1932 he entered the Moscow Art College in memory of 1905, where he studied under M.K. Sokolova. Education was interrupted by arrest in 1934. He studied at the Moscow State Art Institute. IN AND. Surikov. The paintings until the beginning of the sixties were painted in the spirit of the traditional Moscow landscape school. In the 1960s, he abandoned traditional art and created the first formalist works, where color rather than form dominated. In the 1970s, a peculiar style of the master evolved, reflecting his philosophical views. He painted still lifes, made figures from plaster, plasticine and papier-mâché. The works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, private collections in Russia, the USA, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Finland.