Viktor Pivovarov

Nakhova relates that Pivovarov was a major influence and first inspired her to paint.[2] Pivovarov was also a prolific illustrator of children's books,[3] with over 50 books to his credit. He moved from Moscow to Prague in 1982, and continues to live there to date.

A series of paintings in which the subjects are eating lemons. It has been interpreted as a variation of Vincent van Gogh's "The Potato Eaters".[4] The Potato Eaters is van Gogh's attempt at expressing the satisfaction of enjoying the fruits of hard, honest work, while the Lemon Eaters depicts heroes with a rather more complicated relationship to consumption.

The preamble to this album of drawings with text, is that Joseph Stalin created a region, Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the Russian Far East where thousands of Jews were sent. Some were exiled and some went willingly to create a Jewish state in the Russian Far East. After the death of Stalin, many of them left the region, and those that remained mixed with the local Russian and Chinese populations. In this way, a subculture was created which included elements of Russian Orthodoxy, Taoist-Buddhism, Judaism and paganism. This subculture has cult of holy foxes. That is, for every moment of a person's life, there is a specific fox-character that helps a person contend with their life challenges. Each of these fox-characters has its own holiday.

The authorities additionally record the headings V. Pivovarov, Viktor Dmitrievich Pivovarov, Viktor Dmitrievič Pivovarov, Viktor Vitalij Pivovarov and Vitaly Pivovarov. His recorded language was Russian. He married Irina Pivovarova. One child is recorded: Pavel Pepperstein.

Viktor Pivovarov is recorded with the occupation conceptual artist. Classed in the genre Moscow Conceptualists. Recorded as a citizen of Czech Republic. Recognition and collections. Pivovarov received Innovacija.