Art

Grigory Izrailevich: Illustrated Catalogue of an Exhibition, Compiled by Natalia Zavyalova, St. Petersburg, 2001, 32 pp., ill. (Russian)

In addition to reproductions of the works of St. Petersburg artist Grigory Aleksandrovich Izrailevich (1920–1999), the catalogue includes fragments from his memoirs, which Izrailevich titled Blowing Soap Bubbles.

The Artistic Dynasty: Kharlamov-Vainman-Natarevich, Compiled by Natalia Zavyalova, St. Petersburg, 2001, 44 pp., ill. (Russian)

The illustrated catalogue presents the creative work of 18 St. Petersburg artists from various generations of—literally—a single family
David Noevich Goberman: Exhibition of Works, St. Petersburg, 2002, 48 pp., ill. (Russian)

The last exhibition in the life of David Goberman (1912–2003), a St. Petersburg artist, art critic, and art historian, took place in January 2002, in honor of his 90th birthday. This catalogue of the exhibition presents reproductions of paintings and other works by Goberman.

Iosif Natanovich Zisman: Illustrated Catalogue of an Exhibition, Compiled by Natalia Zavyalova, St. Petersburg, 2000, 28 pp., ill. (Russian)

The St. Petersburg artist Iosif Zisman, born in Kiev in 1914, began his artistic education in the Kiev college founded by the Kultur-Liga. Landscapes comprise the bulk of his creative oeuvre.

Solomon Borisovich Epshtein: Illustrated Catalogue of Works, Compiled by Natalia Zavyalova, St. Petersburg, 2000, 20 pp., ill. (Russian)

Painter Solomon Epshtein was born in Vitebsk in 1925. He devoted most of his creative energy to the genre of portraiture.
Petersburg/Jerusalem: An Art Exhibition in the Russian Ethnographic Museum, Compiled by Natalia Zavyalova, St. Petersburg, 2000, 28 pp., ill. (Russian)
Petersburg/Jerusalem 2, Compiled by Natalia Zavyalova, St. Petersburg, 2001, 28 pp., ill. (Russian with English abstracts)

These illustrated catalogues display works from the exhibitions of Jewish artists from St. Petersburg. These exhibitions coincided with Jerusalem Day (marked by Jewish communities around the world on 28 Iyar, according to the Jewish calendar), and the traditional Day of the City, celebrated in Petersburg on 27 May, the anniversary of the founding of Russia’s “northern capital.”