Alexey Zhabsky. Watercolor

“For forty -five years I was lucky to be next to an extraordinary person and a talented artist. Alexey Alexandrovich may have seemed strange and closed to many. And only very close people and few friends knew him as a cheerful, responsive person who had a sparkling sense of humor, knew how to laugh contagiously and was always ready to help. His whole life was a service of art. As an artist, he unusually subtle perceived the world in all its diversity and knew how to see the beauty in seemingly simple things. Never stopping at the achieved, he continued to study with the great masters of the past, working in different genres and techniques.
Often, having painted the picture with oil or tempor, Alexei Alexandrovich again returned to this composition and created new works in a pencil and watercolors. Sometimes, on the contrary, starting to work with a pencil and enthusiastic about the plot, he repeated it in watercolors, and then in oil. But most watercolor works were created as independent works.
Its brushes belong to more than 170 watercolors, which make up the unknown part of the artist’s creative heritage. This album for the first time represents the watercolors of A.A. Zhabsky to a wide circle of connoisseurs of fine art. "
Lyudmila Zhabskaya
Compiled by E. G. Churilov