Month: October 2017

Klionsky, who died last month at 90, was the youngest artist to have his paintings exhibited in the renowned Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow.

Marc Klionsky, a Soviet-Jewish émigré to New York who gained worldwide prominence painting portraits of such eminent figures as Golda Meir and Elie Wiesel, has died.

In the weeks after he arrived in New York City 43 years ago from the then-Soviet Union, where he painted portraits of communist leaders during the day and created artworks with Jewish themes secretly in his Leningrad apartment, at night, acclaimed artist