The author’s copy (2013) of the portrait created by Moscow artist Boris Zhutovsky in 1975 (paper, pencil). Boris Iosifovich depicts the Master in a free, natural, loose manner. The resulting image, despite the caricature nature, combines the features of thoughtfulness and concentration. Boris Zhutovsky managed to convey in the portrait the difficult life path of Ernst Neizvestny, that left a seal of fatigue on his face.
Boris Iosifovich met Ernst Neizvestny in 1956 in the Urals. At that time, still a young and almost unknown artist, arrived in Sverdlovsk by assignment after graduating from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. He got a job at a publishing house, and one of the first books for which he was instructed to make illustrations, was a book of poems by the poetess Bella Dizhur, mother of Ernst Neizvestny.
Ernst Iosifovich did not live with his mother at that time but came to visit her. There, in the mother’s house, the sculptor and artist met.
Boris Zhutovsky recalls the young Ernst Neizvestny, as an energetic, categorical person, always ready for adventures and escapades.
Boris Iosifovich met Ernst Neizvestny in 1956 in the Urals. At that time, still a young and almost unknown artist, arrived in Sverdlovsk by assignment after graduating from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. He got a job at a publishing house, and one of the first books for which he was instructed to make illustrations, was a book of poems by the poetess Bella Dizhur, mother of Ernst Neizvestny.
Ernst Iosifovich did not live with his mother at that time but came to visit her. There, in the mother’s house, the sculptor and artist met.
Boris Zhutovsky recalls the young Ernst Neizvestny, as an energetic, categorical person, always ready for adventures and escapades.
