Portrait of Sergey Kelmut
Chemiakin Mikhail Mikhailovich (b.1943)
1964 год
Chemiakin Mikhail Mikhailovich (b.1943)
Portrait of Sergey Kelmut
1964 год
124 х 87 cm
Orgalite, oil
"In the early 1960s, Sergey Kelmut (nicknamed Kelik) joined my circle of acquaintances. Kelik was a completely Hofmann character, who seemed to have just jumped off the pages of "Little Tsahesha". Between the tiny grey eyes, ironic and wise, there was an enormous nose...
For several years we have developed a tradition of evening and night "promenades". We wandered until dark through the cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, touching in conversations "the otherworldly" themes and admiring old tombstones.
Sergey Kelmut possessed a unique philosophical vision of the world, an innate impeccable taste, and in his manners and behavior he was tactful to others, inherent to the true aristocrats" (from the memories of M. Shemyakin)
Portrait of Sergey Kelmut
1964 год
124 х 87 cm
Orgalite, oil
"In the early 1960s, Sergey Kelmut (nicknamed Kelik) joined my circle of acquaintances. Kelik was a completely Hofmann character, who seemed to have just jumped off the pages of "Little Tsahesha". Between the tiny grey eyes, ironic and wise, there was an enormous nose...
For several years we have developed a tradition of evening and night "promenades". We wandered until dark through the cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, touching in conversations "the otherworldly" themes and admiring old tombstones.
Sergey Kelmut possessed a unique philosophical vision of the world, an innate impeccable taste, and in his manners and behavior he was tactful to others, inherent to the true aristocrats" (from the memories of M. Shemyakin)