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7cXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1984 FORT WORTH PAGE, 20 *
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Russian Emigre Artists In U.S. World Of Fine Arts
BY YITZHAK RABI
[Copyright 1984, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.]
In the highly competitive
and sophisticated world of
fine art in the U.S., Soviet
art has not been considered
with high regard. At the
most it has been dismissed
as “social realism,” a pro-
duct of a totalitarian society
that does not allow real, true
artistic expression of any
sort.
This view, however, is
gradually changing. In re-
cent years, works of Russian
emigre artists, most of them
Jewish, have become very
“in," and their paintings and
sculpture are sought after
by galleries, art dealers and
private collectors.
The person who triggered
all this is a young Jewish
emigrant from Kharkov in
the Ukraine, who arrived in
New York only nine years
ago with almost no money
but with a dream of
becoming a dealer of Rus-
sian art. Today, he is the
exclusive and largest art
dealer in America of works
of Russian emigre artists,
some of whom rank among
the best in the world.
Before emigrating to the
United States in 1975,
Edward Nakhamkin was a
mathematics professor at
the University of Riga. “In
the Soviet Union there are
no galleries and no art
dealers. I was teaching
mathematics there because
this was the best and
prestigious thing to do,”
Nakhamkin said in an
interview with the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency. “But
when I arrived in New York,
I decided to open a gallery. I
like business and I like art,
and two are a good combina-
tion.”
The odds were all against
him. Nobody in America
believed then in Russian art.
Nekhamkin spoke hardly
any English, his business
experience was close to zero
and he had a little more than
a few hundred dollars in his
possession.
“The art business is the
most difficult of all other
businesses,” Nakhamkin
pointed out. “It is not bread
and butter that people can’t
do without it. The major
difficulty for me was that
nobody here was familiar
with Russian arts. They only
knew that Russian art is
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aouJ members. You might be stirred by bagpipes wailing to
the strains of Hava Nagila Or even see the hota danced by
men in kilts.
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have an encore that does the palate good, as well: A wee
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Social Realism.”
After six months in New
York, Nakhamkin opened a
small gallery on a second
floor in a building near the
Museum of Modert Art in
midtown Manhattan. The
next month after the gallery
opened — Edward Nakham-
kin fine Arts — he had
difficulties paying the rent.
“It was difficult to bring the
people up to the second floor
to see the art,” he recalled.
But things started grad-
ually to improve. After a
while, encouraged by grow-
ing interest in what he had
to offer, Nakhamkin moved
his gallery to larger, street-
level quarters on Madison
Avenue, where some of the
best known galleries in the
city are located.
“People suddenly started
to come and see the
paintings of my artists —
and they were impressed.
They realized that Russian
artists are very high skilled
and their work is of
extremely high quality,”
Nakhamkin said. According
to Nakhamkin, most of the
Russian artists who came to
America studied for many
years in Moscow’s best
schools for art. “Some of
them had studied in these
schools for more than 16
years,” he noted, adding:
“They came to America with
talent and artistic know-
ledge and America has been
letting them show it.”
Asked if the Russian
artists in America have any
common approach or style in
their work, Nakhamkin re-
plied: “The only thing that
they have in common is that
all of them are highly skilled
and professional. But each
has his own style. Each of
them is very individualistic
and each has his own
original message that he
tries to convey through his
work.”
Almost all of the artists
represented by Nakhamkin
are figurative painters.
“This is my personal taste,”
he admitted.
The most famous of the
Russian artists in America
and throughout the West is
Ernst Neizvestny, a painter,
sculptor and engraver, who
is regarded as the greatest
Jewish artist to leave the
Soviet Union since Marc
Chagall. His paintings, ac-
cording to Nakhamkin, are
sold for tens of thousands of
dollars, some of them for
more than $60,000.
Another world-renowned
artist represented by Nak-
hamkin is Igor Tulipanov,
whose large, impressive
surrealistic paintings are
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Other artists, among the
list of more than 40 artists
that Nakhamkin has been
dealing with, are Yuri
Krasny, who creates paint-
ings and sculptures in the
neo-figurative tradition; El-
ya Peker, who is considered
one of the most popular
Russian artists now working
in the West; and Oleg
Tselkov, a powerful painter
of figurative style depicting
Soviet oppression.
In the nine years that
Kakhamkin has been devot-
ing to the promotion of
Russian art, he has mounted
more than 100 exhibitions,
both in his own gallery and
in others throughout the
United States and Canada.
Recently he opened a new
gallery in the Soho section of
Manhattan, the new “Mec-
ca” of the New York art
world. Soon he will open a
new gallery in Washington,
D.C. Nakhamkin has also
shown his artists’ works at
international shows such as
ArtExpo New York and
ArtExpo Los Angeles.
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Fresh, salted, and spiced fish were common
among the Hebrews. A dish made of flaked fish was
called zachanah. Fish was thought to be especially
good for pregnant women.
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1 clove garlic, minced
1 to 2 teaspoons curry powder
Vi teaspoon salt
Va cup flour
1 (1 lb.) can salmon
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2 cups green grapes, melon balls, or slices of green
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1 teaspoon lime juice
4 cups cooked rice
1 cup slivered toasted almonds
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minutes, stirring. Add the sugared fruit to which the
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Happy Birthday
5 Lori Ann Marcus
5 Abraham Cohen
6 Darrel Levingston
Lawrence, Mass
6 Sammv Shiffman
7 Harold Jaffe
7 Herby Berkowitz
7 Harold Zenick
7 Jerry Zenick
8 Michael Luskey
8 Marvin E. Blum
8 Ira Cohen, Chicago
8 Madlyn Rice
8 Sherwin Rubin
8 David Luskey
9 Rebekah Rousch
9 Richard Britton
9 Roland Golat
9 Mrs. Don Prager
8 Vicki Helene Rosen
9 Dr. Michael Korenman
9 Debbie Kleinman
9 Larry Weltman
10 Kenneth Custer
10 Myra Schussler
10 A.ndrew Biskin
San Antonio
10 Dr. Frank Cohen
10 Mrs. Sid Klemow
10 Charles Levine
10 Mrs. Murray Rosenthal
10 Helen Jean Richard
10 Eli Abraham
10 Raymond Abrams
Happy Anniversary
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Margate, Kla.
6 Mr. and Mrs. Joe Goldblatt
7 Mr. and Mrs. Earl Givant
7 Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Herman
8 Mr. and Mrs. Burton 1. Cohen
El Paso
8 Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Silver
10 Mr. and Mrs. Leon Brachman
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