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- <text id=92TT1316>
- <title>
- June 15, 1992: Striking Oil In Brooklyn
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- June 15, 1992 How Sam Walton Got Rich
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 77
- Striking Oil In Brooklyn
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- <p>By MICHAEL QUINN
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- <p> 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.
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- </body></article>
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