Alexandre Gertsman is the founder and director of Alexandre Gertsman Contemporary Art, a leading contemporary art gallery in New York City’s NoHo district. Recognized for his discerning eye and deep expertise in contemporary art, Gertsman has built an international reputation as an art dealer, independent curator, and trusted advisor to collectors, institutions, and museums worldwide.
Before establishing his gallery, he organized numerous traveling museum exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe, creating opportunities for audiences to engage with significant contemporary artists across international cultural institutions.
Today, Gertsman regularly consults with major museums, corporations, auction houses, and private collectors, while contributing to exhibition catalogs and publications both nationally and internationally. His insight into the global art market has made him a respected voice in the industry, with commentary featured in leading art publications and on television and radio programs.
Vitaly Dlugy was one of the pioneers of Symbolism and faktura, an expressive painting style, in the early 1970s, and later in his career developed his own version of Magic Realism. Articles about him and reproductions of his artworks were published in The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Times, and ArtSpeak.
His artworks have been sold at several American auction houses, with the record price of $21,000 for the painting Dominos, 72×72 in., at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago in 2011.
Dlugy’s paintings are held in the collections of The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; the National Jewish Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, New York, among other museums in the USA.
Vitaly Dlugy died in New York in 1991 at the age of 48.
NATALYA NESTEROVA’s paintings are steeped in symbolism, balancing between reality and illusion. While using elements of Surrealism and Primitivism, her work is theatrical, full of nostalgia and romanticism.
Nesterova was exhibited at The Guggenheim Museum in New York and had solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Museum Ludwig of Contemporary Art in Cologne, among many other museums worldwide. Her talent was highly appreciated in the articles in Time magazine, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, Art in America, Flash Art, and Art and Antique, among other press.
Her work has been sold by major auction houses, including Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Phillips, and Bonhams, in New York and London. Nesterova’s auction record prices reached $160,000 for Dancing People, 64×64 in., at Phillips de Pury in London in 2007; $132,500 for Last Supper, 56×112 in., at Sotheby’s in New York in 2008; On the Beach, 60×40 in., at Phillips de Pury in New York in 2007; $125,000 for Red Pakhra, 40×98 in., at Sotheby’s in London; and $37,000 for Patience, 31×51 in., at Christie’s in London in 2012.
Nesterova’s work can be found in the collections of The Guggenheim Museum, New York; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada; Museum Ludwig of Contemporary Art, Cologne, Germany; Palazzo Forti Museum of Modern Art, Verona, Italy; Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea; Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary; and The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC.
Natalya Nesterova died in New York in 2022 at the age of 78.
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