"Still Life – Landscapes – Interiors" – 1946 – 1965

"… but anywhere – depicting a bundle of sun-dried sea-roach, fresh vegetables thrown onto the table, a cozy corner of the room, the narrow streets of old Riga, the walls of Suzdal, the faded lanes of a Central Asian town, the dusky Caspian moorings– the artist manages to find the genuine beauty rather than the fake grandeur, the breath of real life rather than the exoticism and brash special effects…

Flora Syrkina

From the Catalogue of the Artist's One-man Exhibition, 1962