Coming Home. Exhibition and fund raising auction of Ukrainian Marine Impressionist Vladimir Zebek (1931-2015)

Born in 1931, in Nikolaev, Ukraine, Vladimir Evgenievich Zebek was witness to over sixty of the most tumultuous years in Russian history. In March 2015 he lifted his brush for the last time. He was actively painting until his death at 84 years of age.

Zebek’s family endured the famine in the early 1930s. His father died, and Vladimir and his sister were placed in an orphanage. In 1943, he, his mother and sister were sent to Germany. While there he was taught to paint by a neighbor artist. When the war was almost finished, Vladimir left his German employer and wandered in Europe painting watercolors to earn a living. He returned home to the Soviet Union and was greeted with arrest, accusation of treason, and spent several years in an Arkhangelsk labor camp, where he continued to paint… Free to follow his dream, Zebek soon established himself as a respected Marine Impressionist. He studied fine art painting at the National Academy of Art in Lviv, Ukraine, and in 1963 graduated from the prestigious Moscow State Art College of Memory of 1905.

Today, Vladimir Zebek is recognized as one of Russia’s finest contemporary Seascape Artists; often compared to grand master of Russian marine art, Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900). Despite the commonality of subjects, Zebek’s presentation style is entirely different. Aivazovsky’s masterpieces were the great examples of Russian Realism School of his period. Zebek takes that realism and passes it through the eye, hand and brush of a skilled Impressionist.

From Daniel Adolfson’s unique collection of Vladimir Zebek original paintings, From Russia with Art Gallery is privileged to present 26 original pieces for sale from 1:00-9:00pm, on Thursday, June 16. Then from 11:00am-7:00pm, on Friday, June 17 and Saturday, June 18, with a fine art Auction on Sunday, June 19, from noon till 4:00pm. Proceeds benefit Jewish Educational & Cultural Center Makor, a non-profit 501©3 organization. The GALA opening with live music and refreshments will be held on Thursday, June 16, from 6-9PM, entrance fee $10.

Where: 49 Winchester Street, Newton, MA, 02461 ( in 5 min walk from Newton Highlands T station)

Contact: 617 771 4870 Vladimir Fogelman, 857 756 8185 Jerry Koenig

www.centermakor.org, www.fromrussiawithart.org

See you at the beautiful exhibition in Newton, dear friends!