Your Art Lounge Magazine presents:
Living Heritage: Masterpieces from a Private Collection Available for Purchase
February 21: Opening Reception from 4:00-9:00 PM
February 22: 1:00-7:00 PM
February 22: 1:00-7:00 PM
The name of Pavel Tayber is well known to collectors and the older generation, yet his artistic legacy remains largely underestimated by the broader public—especially by younger audiences, which is truly unfortunate.
His early works—a remembered and imagined universe of childhood—continue the tradition of artistic theatricality initiated by Marc Chagall and later developed by Alexander Tyshler, Boris Messerer, and others.
“The theme of theater occupied Pavel Tayber’s imagination for many years,” recalls his widow, Lyudmila Lukomskaya. “It began with scenes in which children staged puppet performances and carnival processions along the painted streets of small towns. But life changes—and Tayber’s move to America revealed a new, unexpected side of the artist: one shaped by mature philosophical themes, reflections on time, the joys and sorrows of life, and the happiness of living and loving in this mad and beautiful world.”
Pavel Tayber passed away in 2017, leaving behind dozens of works. “There are so many of them not because the artist was unrecognized,” Lyudmila continues, “but because painting was his way of existing. Temperamental, full of ideas and emotions, he responded to everything with a painting—just as a poet responds to life with verse.”
We will present 51 paintings from the artist’s 1990s–2000s period: large panels depicting his signature puppet processions and enchanting children, still lifes executed in a Cézanne-inspired painterly manner, and works approaching abstraction.
Every piece is executed with exceptional mastery.
All works will be available for purchase.
We warmly invite you to attend.
Gradus Ad Parnassum Music Academy
1527 South B Street San Mateo, CA
