"Mother 1946 - 1965

"Mother portraits, the first, the second, the third, painted in water-colors, drawn in pencil: a withered old thing in a shawl, a Rembrandtian granny sewing, and only quested-at image, almost a Yermolov-type figure, though the viewer sees only a face framed by silvery hair… "

Bella Gershzon, "To taste the colors of poor life…"
Novoe Russkoe Slovo, April 19, 1999.