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5 unusual facts about Mikhail Turovsky


Aphorism

Two influential collections of aphorisms published in the twentieth century were The Uncombed Thoughts by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (in Polish), and Itch of Wisdom by Mikhail Turovsky (in Russian and English).

Mikhail Turovsky

Mikhail Turovsky's work is represented in permanent collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Yad Vashem Memorial Art Museum in Jerusalem, the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in New York, and the Notre Dame University Art Museum in Indiana, as well as many public and private collections.

Among his well-known works are the cycle Holocaust, The End of an Utopia', many nudes, landscapes and still lifes; illustrations to the works of Ivan Franko, Vasyl Stefanyk, Aleksandr Blok, Sholom-Aleichem, Leon Feuchtwanger, Johannes Becher, and many other writers.

Turovsky returned to Kiev in 1944 and continued his studies at the Shevchenko State Art School.

Vasyl Stefanyk

The "Blue Book" was republished in Ukraine in 1966 in an edition lavishly illustrated by Mykhaylo Turovsky.



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