I.Babel "The Red Cavalry" 1967 – 1969

"Isaak Babel (the literary author of "The Cavalry") is close to the artist, maybe closer than anyone else, hence the harsh transformation of Babel's stories into paintings , created much later but nevertheless devoid of any illustrative qualities. The source is pure, and so is everything that follows it, in spite of the harsh truth of situations and bare feelings."

V. Polyakov, Russian Artist, 1971