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Leonid Zorin - contemporary Russian (Moscow)
A series of portraits of his fellow Russian Printmakers from his 'Graphics of Russia' series.
I acquired a selection of his and other artists work from the now extinct Moscow Etching Gallery that
vanished from the Internet about eighteen months ago. Despite a lot of correspondence I never managed to get
any biographical details. His work is usually imbued with a bit of humour and a lot of social commentary. The
gallery showed little of his portaiture which is in fact much better than his topographical etchings. If anyone knows
of his whereabouts, or that of Kiril Denisin who managed things, please let me know - I would like buy some more!
All are 150x125mm, editions of 20 (in sepia, some more editioned in black), from 1993-1997. The details are my
interpretation of some rather idiosyncratic translations.
Kamil Gubaivitch Gubaidulin
50 yrs old, from Siberia
Main interests landscapes, russion folk themes and fantasy work
Sergey Michaelovich Kharlamov
Member of the Russian Academy of Science
Honourable Artist of Russia
Book Illustrator working in wood and plastic
Vladimir Gavrilovich Leonov
Stanislav Mikhailovich Nikireev
63 yrs old, from Moscow
Member of the Academy of Science, Honourable Artist of Russia
Etcher, mainly of landscapes
Sergey Victorovitch Smirnov
45yrs old from Siberia
Painter and Etcher, particularly of abstract themes
Leonid Zorin - 'his autoportrait'
Remains an enigmatic mystery !
'so your favourite author looks almost like in the etching - maybe less dramatic..'
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