Igor Golomstok died

July 12 in London at the age of 88, art critic Igor Golomstok died.

It is reported by Radio Liberty .

Igor Naumovich Golomshtok was born in 1929 in Kalinin (now Tver), graduated from the financial institution in Moscow (1949), in 1948 he entered the evening building of the philological (later historical) faculty of Moscow State University.

He worked in the All-Union Scientific Workshops on the Restoration of Architectural Monuments, in the Department of Mobile Exhibitions of the Directorate of Art Exhibitions and Panorams of the USSR Ministry of Culture, in the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin (1955–1963).

In 1960, the book “Picasso”, written by Golomstok in collaboration with Andrei Sinyavsky, was published, the first book about the artist that was published in the USSR since the time of the revolution. A number of other works of the holomstok - including Bosch, about Cezanne and about modern foreign art - were not allowed for publication for ideological reasons.

In 1965 he was involved in the court in the Daniel-Sinyavsky case, and for refusing to testify was sentenced to six months of forced labor.

In 1972 he emigrated to the UK. He played at the BBC , wrote about totalitarian art, was published in the magazines "Continent" and "Syntax", taught at St. Endrus, Essox and Oxford Universities. In 2015, he presented at Radio Liberty a book of his memoirs “Assignment for the Old City: Pessimist memoirs”.