Yaroslav Igorevich Krestovsky (1925 - 2004)

Yaroslav Igorevich Krestovsky

Yaroslav Igorevich Krestovsky (Russian: Ярослав Игоревич Крестовский) was a Soviet and Russian artist of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is known as a painter and graphic artist, a representative of the Leningrad School.

Yaroslav Krestovsky has participated in exhibitions since 1957. His works, including urban and natural landscapes, still lifes, portraits and genre compositions, became famous for their decorative color and graphic expressiveness. Especially famous are a series of still lifes, genre compositions and images of "Leningrad courtyards", in which he conveyed the atmosphere of contemporary reality and its contradictions. The master was a member of the leftist group of artists known as "Eleven".