Oil/Tempera on canvas. Featuring urban streets and entitled, "The Children on the way to Stolarsky School," (From The Series “Odessa In My Childhoodâ€) and dated 1974. Signed by Yefim Ladyzhensky (Ukrainian, 1911-1982). 35 x 38.6 in. (89 x 98 cm). Yefim Ladyzhensky, a generation younger than Babel, was an artist who while earning a living in Moscow as a painter of theatrical scenery, privately painted scenes of his childhood in Odessa, depicted - as David K. Shipler wrote in the New York Times in 1983 - as “a festive, bustling city of gaily painted trams, sailors and holiday crowds in white, of flower vendors and brass bands, amusement parks and fish stalls, horse-drawn carriages, communal baths, cafes and fashionable people at the opera. There were also bar mitzvahs, marriage feasts, synagogue scenes and other Jewish themes the Soviet authorities didn’t allow him to exhibit.†In 1978 Ladyzhensky emigrated to Israel, where he hoped that his depictions of Jewish life would find a receptive public. But the young nation was not so interested in a nostalgic look back at the world of yesterday, and the painter was unprepared for life as an artist under capitalism. “He was unable to adjust to the free market in art, refusing to sell paintings or to let gallery owners bargain with customers over prices,†according to Shipler. “He felt it was demeaning.†In 1982 the artist hanged himself in his studio. Interest in the work of Ladyzhensky is currently experiencing a renaissance.

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