Leonid Ossipowitsch Pasternak - Artist Info

About Leonid Ossipowitsch Pasternak

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    "Art Review: Leonid Pasternak, Family Man and Artist," Los Angeles Times, newspaper, by Cathy Curtis, September 6, 1988.

    The Pasternak family must have looked forward to cozy evenings in their Moscow home, reading and sewing and playing the piano while daddy crept around with a sketchbook, trying to catch everyone unawares.

    Daddy was Leonid Osipovich Pasternak, a teacher at the prestigious Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Drawing. His sketches from the early decades of this century--on view, with a selection of his other work, at the Modern Museum of Art in Santa Ana through Sept. 25--show him to be at heart a family man.

    Pasternak’s crayon lovingly traces the bare rounded shoulders and a slack, full cheek of d...

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