Fall 2013 www.internationalimagesltd.com

514 Beaver Street, Sewickley, PA 15143 412-741-3036 Art@InternationalImagesLtd.com

Including pieces from: Rumen Rachev, Vyachestav Roubanov, Anatoli Kaplan, Demian Utenkov, Evgeni Rastorguev, Ricardas Bartkevicius, Dzemma Skulme, Jose Marquez Valdes, and Humberto Castro Cruz

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International Images, ltd. In 1978, Dr. Elena Kornetchuk opened an art gallery in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally known as Russian Images due to Dr. Kornetchuk’s exclusive agreement with the Soviet government, it became International Images ltd. in 1983, after the gallery expanded to include more international art. Five years later, International Images moved to the historic Flatiron Building in Sewickley, Pennsylvania and is still located there today.

Today, the historic gallery not only represents Russian artists but artists from all around the world. These artists hale from countries such as Africa, China, Cuba, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Russia, and the United States. Dr. Kornetchuk travels extensively in search of exotic and interesting artworks to exhibit and boasts an impressive collection from the traditional to the avant-garde. Prominent international artists such as Alexander Bandzeladze (Georgia), Andrei Gennadiev (Russia) and Malle Leis (Estonia) have been represented by International Images throughout the years. Dr. Kornetchuk has also published numerous articles and catalogs about the artists represented.

2Main Exhibit: 1st floor hanging through October 12th.

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4Andrew MayerAmbridge, PAAcrylic on Canvas with hand carved frames2nd Floor

5Lea BrownBronze SculptorSewickley, PA2nd Floor

Fernando OrtegaWood Sculptor

Cuba2nd Floor

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Vladimir Smirnov Vladimir Smirnov is a Russian artist born in 1953. He considers himself primarily a painter of historical themes. His paintings include subjects such as historic Russian cathedrals, the great flood of the ice age, the pyramids of Mexico, and and medieval cities in Japan. The mediums he paints with are as varied as his subject matters. Painting with water colors, oils, gouache and India Ink on anything from paper to canvas to wood board.

8Vladimir SmirnovOld Moscow

55 x 70 cm1996 RussiaOil on Masonite $1,800

9Vladimir SmirnovThe Yard

30 x 24 cm1997 Russia Oil on Board $400

10Vladimir SmirnovThe Yard

30 x 24 cm1997 Russia Oil on Board $850

11Vladimir SmirnovThe Harbor of Lisbon

29.2 x 24 cm1996 Russia Oil on Canvas $250

12Vladimir SmirnovLibson Royal Palace, 19th Century

24 x 30 cm1996 Russia Oil on Board $400

13Vladimir SmirnovMorning in Libson

24 x 30 cm1997 Russia Oil on Board $400

14Vladimir SmirnovTraveling the World

56 x 48 cm Russia Oil on Canvas $1,500

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Alexander Bandzeladze Alexander Bandzeladze is recognized as the inheritor of the Russian abstractionist tradition of Wassily Kandinsky. He was a teacher at the Tbilisi Art Academy, where he worked primarily in the impressionist style. Pursuing a career in graphic illustration as of 1955, he continued to develop an abstract painting style that was only just recently revealed in the early 90s.

16Alexander BandeladzeImprovisation

90 x 100 cm1988GeorgiaOil on Canvas $3,500

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Rumen Rachev Rumen Rachev is a Bulgarian painter and illustrator. Since the start of his career in the 1970s, his art has turned focus from Bulgarian folk art to social issues. His work is displayed internationally, and he was won numerous awards for his art.

18Rumen RachevJazz II

42 x 65 cm1994 Germany Lithograph $800

19Rumen RachevUntitled

70 x 50 cm1999 GermanyMixed Media $1,900

20Rumen RachevFour Different Women

110 x 100 cm1998 Bulgaria Acrylic on Canvas $1,800

21Rumen RachevMan with two Women Sitting

110 x 110 cm1998 Bulgaria Acrylic on Canvas $2,200

22Rumen RachevGirl with White Hat

100 x 60 cm1996 Bulgaria Acrylic on Canvas $1,500

23Rumen RachevPiano Bar

110 x 120 cm1997 Bulgaria Acrylic on Canvas $2,000

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Vitcheslav Roubanov Vitcheslav Roubanov was born in the Soviet Union in 1948. Beginning his art career in set design, having created over 70 sets for ballets, operas, and theater, he soon moved to frescos, illustrations and portraits. Since his immigration to the United States in 1990, Roubanov has been commissioned to do any number of projects, from designing the ceiling fresco for Rockefeller Center’s “La Boutique Fantasque,” to illustrating a magazine theme for international magazine “Sputnik.”

25Vitcheslav RoubanovImmigration is Bittersweet

86.3 x 66 cm1991 Russia Oil on Canvas $1,300

26Vitcheslav RoubanovCats

45.7 x 71.8 cm1989 Russia Oil on Canvas $900

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Anatoli Kaplan Anatoli Kaplan was a Russian painter, sculptor and print maker with Jewish origins. The son of a butcher, Kaplan graduated from the Russian Academy of Arts in 1927. The majority of his work from the 1950s onward has strong Jewish themes, despite opposition from the Soviet cultural authorities at the time. Working originally in lithographs, his failing health and eyesight turned him towards ceramics, pastels, and etchings. Unfortunately, Kaplan passed away in 1980, but his work is still featured internationally.

28Anatoli KaplanYouth

113.03 x 81.28 cm1980 Russia Oil Pastel on Paper $1,200

29Anatoli KaplanThe Flower Merchant

45.5 x 31.5 cm1980RussiaOil Pastel on Paper $1,000

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Humberto Castro Cruz Humberto Castro Cruz is a Cuban painter whose work is inspired by violence. His initial inspiration was the mass extermination of the aboriginal population of Cuba. Later, his work drew inspiration from more recent moments in history, such as the civil war in El Salvador.

31Humberto Castro CruzMetamorphosis

72 x 67 cm1995 Cuba Acrylic on Canvas $700

32Humberto Castro CruzUntitled 3

71 x 67 cm1996Cuba Acrylic on Canvas $700

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Dalia Kasciunaite Dalia Kasciunaite is a Lithuanian painter, poet, and graphic artist. Her early work focused primarily on portraits, landscapes, and still lifes, but then turned to a more abstract style of heavy brush strokes and using large blocks of color to dominate the landscapes of her canvases. Currently, she is featured internationally, and is commissioned for work ranging from paintings to jewelry.

34Dalia KasciunaiteComposition

90 x 90 cm Lithuania Oil on Canvas $1,900

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Demian Utenkov Demian Utenkov is an artist that specializes in etchings. He often works in book illustration, including “Chronicle,” by S. Markov, and “Set on Fire,” by D. Zhukov. Utenkov is primarily inspired by natural life, Russian history, and Russian visual folk art. He travels extensively to remote locations in order to procure inspiration for his numerous works of arts.

36Demian UtenkovOwl

52 x 31 cm 1980Russia Etching $600

37Demian UtenkovKittens

50 x 30 cm 1985Russia Etching $1,000

38Demian UtenkovRecollection of Yakutian Swamp

41 x 29 cm1977 Russia Etching $1,000

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Evgeni Rastorguev Evgeni Rastorguev was born in 1920, and is a World War II veteran as well as a Stalinist era survivor. Motivated by the unpredictable nature of Russia’s modern history, his work draws us towards more simple pleasures that stem from Old Russia. Through his paintings, drawings, and sculptures, he blends reality with imagination in a manner similar to that of his wife, fellow artist Tamara Guseva.

40Evgeni RastorguevThe Rendez-Vows

94 x 71 cm1982 Russia Mixed Media $2,000

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Jesus Lara Jesus Lara is a Cuban multimedia artist whose work has been displayed in over 70 exhibitions internationally. The self-taught artist creates work that is heavy with symbolism, from themes of happiness and peace, to war, fear, and religion.

42Jesus LaraIntrospeccion II

109 x 81.28 in1996Cuba Oil on Canvas $2,000

43Jesus LaraMonte Virgen

101.6 x 78.74 cm1996Cuba Oil on Canvas $2,000

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Joop Vegter Joop Vegter was born in 1931 in the Netherlands. He started out his career as an etcher, and turned to mezzotints in 1974. The self-taught artist often uses his work to showcase realistic subjects in unrealistic settings in an almost abstract style. Currently, he is widely regarded as one of the leading color mezzotint artists of today’s art world.

45Joop VegterA Peacock Feather

20 x 25 cm2002 Holland Mezzotint $400

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Jose Marquez Valdes Jose Marquez Valdes was born in Havana, Cuba in 1961. He is a painter and chalk artist who focuses on realism. His work has been featured prominently in Hispanic and Latin American countries as well as the United States and China. His wife, Carmita, is also a painter.

47Jose Marquez ValdesBalcony Window

93 x 72 cm1998 Cuba Oil on Canvas $1,300

48Jose Marquez ValdesThe Corner of L and II, Urban Car

65 x 80 cm1998Cuba Oil on Canvas $1,300

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Juri Arrak Juri Arrak is a contemporary artist from the Soviet Republic of Estonia. He is known for his paintings, charcoals, pastels, watercolors, and prints. His earlier paintings often incorporated objects that were attached to the panels of his composition. His recent work has a surreal, dreamlike quality that carries over from medium to medium.

50Juri ArrakIllusionist

48.26 x 48.26 cm1977 Estonia Etching $2,000

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Leonid Semeiko Leonid Semeiko is an artist hailing from Moscow. He describes his work as belonging to the “hyper-realist” school of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. He is a minimalist painter who frequently depicts the claustrophobia of the urban environment, painting his subjects with doors and windows that never open.

52Leonid SemeikoTwo Windows

35 x 55 cm1992 Georgia Oil on Canvas $500

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Marisabela Erminy Marisabela Erminy is a Venezuelan painter. Her work is considered abstract, and she has been called the “South American Georgia O’Keefe.”

54Marisabela ErminyUntitled

60 x 80 cm1991 Venezuela Acrylic on Canvas $400

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Mikhail Romadin Mikhail Romadin is a Russian artist born in 1940. He works as a painter, illustrator, movie art designer and theater artist. He is a third generation artist, his father being a painter and his grandfather being a landscape artist.

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93.98 x 64.77 cm1980 Russia Oil on Canvas

Mikhail RomadinThe Eye

$2,500

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Natalia Klyova Natalia Klyova was born in Moscow, Russia in 1950. She combines Slavic folk traditions with abstract expressionism in her art. Her artwork has been extensively exhibited in Bulgaria, Russia, and the United States, as well as many private collections.

58Natalia KlyovaLake Full of Fish

70 x 72 cm2001 BulgariaMixed Technique $300

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Otari Kandaurov Otari Kandaurov is a Georgian painter. Many of his paintings are portraits, his work has been featured in exhibits around the world as well as the Russian Museum of Art.

60Otari KandaurovPortrait of Prince Myshkin

82 x 28 cm1974 RussiaMixed Media on Paper $3,000

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Petyo Marinov Petyo Marinov is a painter who spent a large amount of his life in London. He has been commissioned to do a number of works, not all involving the art world, such as a commission to create an exhibit for the International Congress of Medicine. Currently, he resides in Varna, Bulgaria, where he plans to spend the rest of his years.

62Petyo MarinovUnknown

55 x 55 cm1996 Russia Oil on Canvas $700

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Ricardas Bartkevicius Ricardas Bartkevicius is a Lithuanian painter born in 1959. His career began in 1979, and he drew much of his inspiration from Expressionist painters. Aside from his work as a painter, he is also an educator, being the head of the Department of Fine Arts at the Vilnius Pedagogical University for many years.

64Ricardas BartkeviciusUntitled

116 x 90 cm1990 Lithuania Acrylic on Canvas $2,500

65Ricardas BartkeviciusUntitled

88 x 115 cm Lithuania Oil on Canvas $2,500

66Ricardas BartkeviciusFaunas

96 x 192 cm Lithuania Oil on Canvas $3,000

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Sophie Kintsurahvili Sophie Kintsurahvili is an artist who hails from the Republic of Georgia. Her work is primarily in illustrations and sketches, though she also works in gouache.

68Sophie KintsurahviliThe Other Side of the Line

88 x 60 cm1997 Georgia Watercolor Gouache $1,200

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Tamara Guseva Tamara Guseva is a post-impressionist artist with a subject matter based on life in Central Russia. Her landscapes and still lifes expertly capture the spirit of Russia and its traditions. In 1983, Guseva was awarded the title Honored Artist of Russia. She, along with fellow artist and husband Evgeny Rastorguev, currently reside in Moscow.

70Tamara GusevaStreet on the Hills

29.8 x 39.2 cm1984 Russia Mixed Media on Paper $750

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Dzemma Skulme Skulme’s paintings and watercolors are done with quick and impulsive brush strokes, preferring to lie her paintings on the ground as she works on them. Deliberately omitting detail and exaggerating contour, her work makes an impact, whether it be large or small. The daughter of Oto Skulme, a well-known set designer in Latvia.

72Dzemma SkulmeGenerations

73 x 101.5 cm1984Latvia Watercolor on Paper $9,500

73Dzemma SkulmeUntitled 1

83 x 103 cm1970 Latvia Watercolor on Paper $9,500

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Wim Bettenhausen Wim Bettenhausen is a Dutch artist born in 1942. He is a painter and sketch artist who also sculpts, his work being displayed in town squares. His wife is fellow artist Tamara Ralis.

75Wim BettenhausenBankahoogte

31 x 42 cm1981 Holland Etching $350

76Wim BettenhausenHuis aan Scheveningseweg

31 x 42 cm1980 Holland Etching $350

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Juri Arrak............................................................Alexander Bandeladze........................................Ricardas Bartkevicius........................................Wim Bettenhausen.............................................. Humberto Castro Cruz.......................................Marisabela Erminy.............................................. Tamara Guseva................................................... Otari Kandaurov..................................................Anatoli Kaplan.................................................... Dalia Kascianaite.............................................. Sophie Kintsurahvil...........................................Natalia Klyova..................................................... Jesus Lara............................................................Petyo Marinov.....................................................Rumen Rachev.....................................................Evgeni Rastorguev..............................................Mikhail Romadin................................................Vitcheslav Roubanov........................................... Leonid Smeiko..................................................... Dzemma Skulme................................................. Vladimir Smirnov.................................................... Demian Utenkov..................................................Joop Vegter...........................................................Jose Marquez Valdes..........................................

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