Sketchbooks

«Gitberg ... was a poet and master of his craft. He never parted with his notebooks – there were dozens of them, with thousands of sketches. In them the artist mastered and turned any life impressions into something harmonious and spirited, something revealing its innermost aesthetic qualities.”

Alexander Kamensky

Article from the solo exhibition catalogue “Anatoly Gitberg. 1926–1983. Decorative and Applied Art, Paintings, Graphic Works”. Exhibition catalogue. Moscow: Moscow branch of the Union of Artists of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, 1984, (USSR).

The exhibition was held 17 June – 8 July 1983. Exhibition hall of the Moscow branch of the Union of Artists of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (#7/9 Begovaya St.), Moscow.

Aleksandr Abramovich Kamensky (Александр Абрамович Каменский) (1922–1992) was a Soviet art critic and art historian.
He wrote and edited many books and articles about various artists, such as Marc Chagall, and Martiros Saryan. (English Wikipedia)