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PEOPLE, Page 77Striking Oil In Brooklyn
By MICHAEL QUINN
It looks as if GORBACHEV has finally mastered the market
economy. No, not Mikhail -- his nephew YURIY, a 46-year-old
painter of rurally themed works in oil that have been exhibited
at the Louvre and in other European venues, and hang on the
walls of Marcello Mastroianni, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Mikhail
Gorbachev, whose brother Fyodor was Yuriy's grandfather. The
artist is even more taken with the West than his famous
relation -- in the past year he moved from Ukraine's Odessa to
America's Brooklyn with his wife and three children. Already he
has produced a classically American masterpiece: a five-figure
agreement with Absolut vodka to create a painting for an ad that
will run this fall when Gorbachev launches his first stateside
one-man show. "I think the name Gorbachev very important for
attention," concedes Yuriy in freshly minted English, "but for
selling, I think not important." He is also dickering with
Bloomingdale's to provide the cover art for the ritzy retailer's
Christmas catalog -- yet one more canvas from Gorbachev's green
period.