Hulot Sooster in the Literary Museum

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''ICE BOOK "

 Publisher Izvestia suggested Hulot illustrated book Lenin Prize Johan Smuul "ice book".

It was a very honorable job. In connection with the growing popularity and the large number of proposed orders Hulot tried to find more productive ways of working. For example, working on "Ice Book", he came up with this: painting on glass, creating just the negative, from which you can make a positive image. He took in this case, for example, the method engraving. On another occasion, he made several engravings of impressions, so as not to draw a few times ink drawing. And after that handles watercolor and gouache, looking for the best, colorful solutions. Finally, figures for "Ice Book" were ready, and I had to myself Johan Smuul confirmed their agreement. Hulot rushed to the native Tallinn, Smuul to the hospital. Johan Smuul liked the pictures, he endorsed, and Hulot's hoping that it will not be the last work together. In Tallinn Hulot had visited and a furniture store, brought us the most expensive wall in our new apartment. They Tennochkoy constructed bookcases, shelves for dishes, for TV and radio. Everything was beautiful, even elegant, and Hulot promised me to write new pictures for our comfort. Meanwhile Hulot breathless from work. He already nebegal for publishers, the editor found it themselves, and now he could choose.

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Shortly before his death, invited Leonid Kheifets do play Krechinsky's Wedding at the Maly Theater. Hulot came and said: "I found a solution to the performance. Very original and contemporary, you might be interested. A huge chair for half the scene, the entire ramp, a chair, and all actors will peep out of this chair, as if through a keyhole" . Hulot was in a wild ecstasy of her zadumki. He still wanted to use the projection as to provide a picturesque spectacle of the performance. Commonwealth of the two artists - Leonid Heifetz and Hulot Sooster - based on an understanding of innovative ideas, but I cooled them down, saying that perhaps it could be done in any other theater in the Efros, for example, but not at the court Maly . Figures of the Maly Theater will never allow it to create. Hulot still went to the theater and even made some sketches, watching the actors, gazed at the boss, but it all ended so that he came and said: "No, it does not work, because the faces are not those names and not fit - Heifetz and Sooster. So ended this venture.

When Hulot died, the artist Boris Zhutovski came to Khrushchev, and said: "He died, whom you once reviled, Hulot Sooster." Khrushchev replied that he did not know then that he was told to go to the show and tell, he did so. Then very sorry. And for all Hulot was awful, until his last days he could not understand what was wanted of him, what is happening. He did not understand that art can do so, as you ordered.

He said that he was born free, but you have to live in a cage. All the time I was searching for ways how to get free, but in the last year before his death, he suddenly said: "And what does it matter in which the attic to work, just to work." Oh, how he suddenly became wrong! Tired of fighting? I forget how important it is to be free? Hulot almost never sick, almost never consulted a doctor, was a healthy man, with a very broad chest, strong. His father, uncle lived a very long time, but the mother Be'er sick and died not very old. Is she gave him her illness? But Hulot believed that he survivor. He always said that he would live a very, very long time, well, a hundred years before, but still need to hurry. Must have time to do much - paintings, graphic sheets, and a lot more to learn.

 

Kopilka SINYAVSKY

One day I was with his girlfriend Irina Uvarova conspired visit Sinyavskys. Sinyavskies returned from vacation, which they held in the North. Sinyavsky's wife, Maria Rozanova, gathered a collection of folk art, and this time they brought a lot of interesting things. There were sundresses, embroidered shirts, kokoshniki, decorated with pearls. We could not resist and, dressed in all this splendor, danced Boyarynya. Then came the master, Andrew Donatovich, we fuss and began going home. Before the front door on the wall, I saw a box, but in a box - the text: "Throw 10 kopecks, you will not be destroyed, but will help us build a new apartment. I was impressed. That evening I told the Hulot. "And here we are with you on this not guessed, when we had our Tuesdays, but there could be", - joked Hulot.

Hulot began work on a favorite book of his childhood - "Spring" Oskar Luts. He worked very long and meticulous. When he showed me the originals, which I initially did not quite understand. Hulot initially angry at me, and then began explaining to me. Hulot was a harbinger of a new vision for the future. It is her very much exaggerated, it was about, as the effect of "fish-eye" in photography. While in the Union because no one drew, it was extraordinarily fresh, unusual move for illustrating fiction. Then I thought it strange and unusual, even frightening. I thought Hulot, probably crazy, but now, over the past thirty years, this approach came in the visual arts and television.

Critic Yu Ya Gerchuk in the book "Soviet Book Graphics", published in 1986, wrote: "Yulo searching for new ways of illustrating science fiction. He read it not as youthful reading, as well as" quite serious, the most acute embodies a disturbing spirit of our age, literature. "Hulot was angry that his new ideas immediately used by other artists, appearing on the shelves of bookshops twins. He had time and again to seek new ways, although none of his epigones could not reach such a height, and reliable imaging.

I am desperate to say to him: "Well, what are you again lint on his next idea, looking, thinking. Look, there's an artist Lev Zbarsky considered the first book by the artist in the country, living in clover, is riding on a white Mercedes, but what about you? .

"He was lucky that the Soviet people almost did not know the work of Picasso. Zbarsky very cleverly uses it in his works, and I want my books to become the events as" Dandelion Wine "Bradbury", - answered Hulot.

At the time, Hulot and my father has a new exciting topic of conversation - the state of Israel. They were so happy victory of Israel in the Six Day War. One day, quite unexpectedly, Yulo asked me: "How do you Lidiilya (as he called me sometimes, when he was particularly tender; Lidiilya - our twin names, Lydia and Elijah, as he called himself in Russian), concerns to emigrate to Israel? ". I opened her eyes, thinking that misheard. No, he clearly asked my permission. He said that Misha Grobman already solved this problem. But while this is a great mystery. I do not remember how I reacted, I thought that everything that's somehow completely unrealistic, and Hulot with Misha dreams of a fairytale dream. I heard a lot about the Promised Land, of Jerusalem, of Jaffa. I read a lot about the outcome of the Jews from Egypt, the kings David and Solomon. I well remember the lamentations of his mother that some Yashka never gave my father no hours, no gold chains, which were transported with him to Israel, in the hope that his father will move there. Everything disappeared - and Yashka, and gold, and the dream of my father to live in Jerusalem. And now that Estonian Hulot dreams about this fabulous country. Yulo said nothing about the conspiracy Grobmanom and steadfastly kept them secret. Grobman left in 1972, after the death of Hulot.

Sooster LI My Sooster. - Tallinn: Avenarius, 2000. - 176 pp.

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February 10 in the Literary Museum (in the opening of the exhibition) was held presentation of the book Lydia Sooster "I'm from the streets Krasin", published by "GMS-gallery" is reminiscent of the artist's wife.

The new memoir is different from the memoirs of colleagues, contemporaries, particularly, chamber intonation. Lydia Sergio (future Sooster), the artist met in 1954 in Stalin's camps, together with her, they lived for fifteen years - until his death wizard. Memoirs of Lydia Sooster, gifted undoubted literary talent, gives the opportunity to touch the era of the sixties with the lyrical side.
More information about the book and its presentation in the museum can be found at:

http://www.sbmgallery.ru/izdat23.html

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In a certain sense, the book became a timetable for Hulot Sooster place internal emigration. Encyclopedia "F G H" said that "his original, as it were" fantastic "- not science fiction, but rather a fairy tale - a style close to surrealism. That is science fiction and "adopted" a painter. He drew illustrations for the magazine "The knowledge - force", designed the book to Azimov and K. Simak for "Mirovska" series "Foreign Fiction", the first Russian edition of "Dandelion Wine" by R. Bradbury, too, came out with pictures Sooster; lucky few -who of local (at that time - local) authors, in particular Arkady Lvov and his fantastic sbornichku Boulevard Tselakantus. There were also "just" children's books: "History of serf boy" Alekseeva, compiled by M. Bulatov collection of fairy tales, accounters, riddles "Thirty-three of the pie", translated from the Estonian book O. Luts "Spring" and, finally, a collection of stories known ornithologist Eugene Spangenberg "Birds, rabbits, foxes and other ...".

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"I'm busy EGGS ..."

 Hulot has worked as a rabid, but money is lacking. Therefore had to draw on a contractual basis rather than contract, in which case the originals of drawings owned by publishers rather than artists. They reprinted the book, as we did for it did not have. Sometimes in the search, which would take the money, the artists gathered at Cass Publishers, waiting for a friend will receive a large sum and share with the poor. U Hulot was a notebook, where a pair of pages were written, who should, who settled, and who himself served.

And I left, leaving the shop, a small little notes: "My dear, everything is in order, served with a ruble and eat. I wish you success. Hugs, IL.

It must be the same on the ruble and eat while you can, and a tram ride to and fro.

Hulot, meanwhile enjoyed their life in the studio, he said: "I am now in paradise. I feel the smell of paint and solvent, is the most fantastic smells like a woman - a good French perfume. In my soul singing birds of paradise. I'm so happy, I'll write a lot of pictures with juniper, sea, fish on the new material on board, the DSP, they can withstand the multi-layered texture. I do Estonian art here in Moscow. "

Hulot told me that he met with him, the artists were asked: "Hulot, what are you doing now?" - "I am busy with eggs."

People do not quite understand what the eggs are. And he explained: "Eggs! Egg - a symbol of life. Egg - is birth!". He wrote enormous eggs. Eggs over land, in the colors of Easter eggs, eggs, black, a series of eggs. In Tallinn museum has the most beautiful white egg. Inside the egg - a bird. Hulot conjured on them, interfered with paint, paste relief, carpenter's glue, fish glue, epoxy, interfered burned bronze, which looked like an old copper, and squeezed from a tube with thin streaks nitroemalevye paint. Glued to the drawing ready painted squares, wings, tails, rings, sprayed, to set off something like prokoryabyvat needle and awl drawing.

Perhaps, my memoir will seem boring, but others may perceive them as unnecessary, but I want a little bit to unburden themselves and tell how I can, how difficult life was to us as forbidden to pronounce his name, and even now not all guilty. I am very sorry that I did not write a blog, but fear of arrest led us to Hulot one day destroy our letters.

Sooster LI My Sooster. - Tallinn: Avenarius, 2000. - 176 pp.

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DEATH

Much time spent in the studio Hulot. I often asked Hulot question that it is probably annoying, but he still answered to all of us calm. "Hulot, can not you be afraid to sleep alone in this vast workshop?" - "And my next phone, and in his hand booklet" Race for Life. "He recently ran with a huge briefcase in hand from the underground to the house or from home to the subway. This, he invented for himself physical education.

And run something, probably, was not. From coffee Hulot has long refused to drink strong tea. It stimulated a lot of himself in order to more work.

Unfortunately, Hulot hardly used his camp pictures, and think of a psychological portrait gallery has not been implemented. Hulot nobody showed his early work. He believed that it was uninteresting period of creativity. His drawings have seen the light only after his death. Ilya Kabakov was trying to arrange pictures Hulot, which he huddle in a dark room. He was surprised to find several folders with stunning pictures of camp. Hulot managed to embody the tragedy of camp life. All who saw those pictures, they came in admiration. These works have caused such a strong shock at the Leningrad theater artist Marina Azizian that she went to hospital with a nervous breakdown. In 1990, the society "Memorial" and the Artists' Union organized the exhibition "Creativity in the Gulag camps and exile-Art". Hulot presented at this exhibition five works.

Once Hulot not come. The phone's we have not yet. Tennochka ran to call the studio from a payphone. A Hulot all no and no. In the morning I was in disarray. Tennochku sent to school. Stand at the window and watch cars drive up and drove away, and decided to go to see her, my nearest friend, his wife Sasha Radkevich. We absolutely could not think of anything, except one, where is Hulot Where is he? Why disappear? I phoned all the hospitals, called the police. No, not anywhere. It took so much time, and a call from him all there. I could not believe that the accident, Hulot was very cautious. We sat with Svetlana and in anguish clutched what could happen. Then came the calls. Roman rings Minna, calls Reeds - no. Nobody knows anything ...

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I sat by the phone and thought it was just a week ago, the last day of birth, Hulot was a pale, even gray. His head ached, and no massages helped him. Hulot was going to spend a vacation in Tallinn, but money is not received, he was told that I needed an alteration of the book, on which he had just finished work. The money promised in a week. Then he decided that if you do not come with the emigration to Israel, which he conceived with Michael Grobmanom, then he would go to Estonia. He wanted to retire on the island with his family and they live and work. But why so suddenly? Then I kept thinking that he was very tired, but no, wanted to escape, but from what, perhaps, from whom?

 
So I sat and thought. Dark, call: "We need to open the shop," - said my friends. "But I am against hacking, - answer. - Hulot I will never forgive you," Oh, what a fool I was, it was necessary to go at night, and I was afraid, and suddenly the lady ... Comes Romochka Minna and says: "Let's go to the studio, there had already left Sobolev and cane, but I came for you." We went with Svetlana, Sasha and Tolia, their eldest son. We somehow brought in another studio to another artist, sitting, waiting ... We then lamenting that we, two Weak idiot, somehow allowed himself to divert - The fear? I did not know what was going on in workshop at Hulot ... Comes Victor Reed, said that Hulot is very bad, he was taken to hospital. Then we learned that while we were standing, Tolia, the eldest son Sasha Radkevich, dead Hulot attributed to the elevator. Workshop of the sealed up and gone home.

Sister flew with his family, his father and his two uncles from the island, flew Ilya Kabakov, the artists from Estonia. Then I gave the keys to the studio, saying that it was not murder, strangely, still suspects something, and perhaps concealed. And maybe the diagnosis was correct: stroke, coronary insufficiency. Can his physical health was so deceptive, or ...

We were all covered in mortal anguish - acquaintances, friends, relatives. Horror! We could not believe and come to terms with his death. All around the silence. The only magazine "Decorative Arts" is not afraid and printed obituary. "He died Sooster Hulot, to all who knew him personally - and there were a great many - it was happiness that Yulo Sooster lived. He was forever, incredibly talented - in art and in life. His extraordinary paintings awaits his fame - in the schedule, he created his own style. Sooster first spiritualized world of science, science fiction, popular science, he gave them a real life: the cell began to breathe, space - to pulsate. Hulot was a man of fierce and very fun - but it passionately, and that cheerfulness came from somewhere from the depths, perhaps, others inaccessible.

The depth of this was revealed only in the art, which he lived, Hulot Sooster. "The signature was:" A group of comrades. "This article was written editorial director of MF Ladurie. His art was deeply touched us, loved ones, and artists are distressed death Hulot.

And before that Hulot very happy. He sold some Spaniard now for a hundred dollars, and immediately made a copy of it. He recently decided that you want to copy the picture. You can slightly modify the design, texture and sell, but in the meantime look for other topics for other works. A hundred dollars he wanted to send her to Aunt Martha in Sweden, so she sent the things that would be much cheaper and nicer than buying here. And then bad luck, where is the money? Hulot not say where he hid them. I said Vite reed this, we looked through many books, all the papers, but there were hundreds of them, Victor sat and thought, something wondering, as I mentally thought, well, that Victor may udumat! It took two or three days. Victor goes to the studio and tapped on a brick wall. Fits to the elevation where there is a bed Hulot, and suddenly takes a brick, and there is a hiding place, and he happily took out those same one hundred dollars. "Viktor, how did you guess? - I'm puzzled. - How could you guess?" A Hulot was still a peasant, - says Victor, - and the money he believed should be hidden in security. That they were not afraid of no fire, no water. "

Meanwhile, in the shop come in large numbers, ponabezhala, ponahodila lot of some people. Who is it? What people? What do they want?

I sat in the corner alone, indifferent to everything, watching from afar, as they want to spread the shop. Someone said that Hulot promised to give him a picture, but someone said that Hulot promised him a picture, and someone - the book. Disappeared Hulot glasses, watches, my favorite balls, earrings, a gift to me Irina Uvarova. People grabbed brushes, pencils - from memory, but I had no strength to resist this robbery.

 

FUNERALS

 At Soyuzmultfilm studio was arranged funeral. A parting hour. An hour of silence. Sounded with organ music. I still have not asked what it was for works of Estonian composers. I could not cry, no tears, I'll be petrified. Oleg Tselkov gently touched my shoulder and handed me a tube of paint, I put it in his hand Hulot. Hulot was in the famous black suit, which was on exhibition at the Manege. Came Eric Unknown, wiped away tears, kissing Hulot, dragged him to say goodbye Kabakov, Sobolev, Grobman, Yankilevsky, Steinberg, and all friends, artists and relatives. Johannes, his father Hulot, regretted that the coffin was a poor thing, and if he knew he would have brought the coffin made by his own hands. After the cremation went to the studio, where they were arranged wake. I do not remember who bought the ready, who gave money. I think that everything was done by clubbing together. By evening all terribly tired, but did not want to leave, a little shop empty. Only Eduard Limonov, has today become a celebrity, a mediocre poet and writer, regarded as Hulot, with a thick wife did not want to leave. It was impossible to drive. No entreaties, arguments, exhortations did not help. Limonov fell to his knees and, weeping drunken tears, began to pray, bowing to beat self-portrait Hulot. The spectacle of flattened a drunken man on the floor looked sickening. Limonov, in his memoirs, wrote of the insult to Hulot. He probably wanted a more significant contacts, which Hulot avoided.

It seems that someone is watching me, that I did that add to, and I pulled out of the bag someone's love letters to Hulot. Maybe they do not want to mar my memory of Hulot - his infidelity, then I already did not care. I was free! .. Free from their suffering, their thoughts and reflections of his jealousy and his revenge. It must be my son. As I was right when she wanted to be more involved in educating Hulot Tenno, that they played, to Hulot, who would instruct him to draw, but he said: "That's old enough, let's work together." So have designed!

Ilya Kabakov, a day or two or three decided that all the pictures need to transport him to the studio. They began to wear, helped us T. Kolodzei. She stumbled, but her hands were on the glass negatives to the book Smuul "Ice Book", almost all of the negatives were broken. Ilya judged the drawings, he has done herculean work: sorted by year, by subject, and subsequently Tenno another five years all apart and deciphered. I also looked into, but I started dizziness from an abundance of painted, and every time I threw this occupation. Then Ilya invited the photographer to capture Nizhnichenko work to create a single directory. Then he decided to select the thirty best works for the dissemination wishing to have photographs of works of Hulot. Nizhnichenko began to do this business, and even asked me for photos money. We went to him, terrible quarrel, almost came to blows with him, but nothing happened. Before our departure to Israel, it appeared that he died photographer, and his wife said she had not yet unpacked the archive and, in general, look for it in the state.

I began to disassemble the studio, folding things, because it was decided to sell the studio. First there were all sorts of options: take the studio, live there with his family. But we have rejected, and our benefactor Kabakov began to look for buyers. Had negotiations, of course, Tolia Kabakov, he once liked the name, and we called him that. Toll, Toll way, I felt it was not difficult, especially since it did not last very long. Meanwhile, I became mired in some papers, piece of metal and rags. God! How much junk Hulot acquired during this short period, living in a studio at the Kirov. I'm all washed, cleaned, removed the little room, shed, kitchenette, bath. She came to me Elena Mikhailova, charming, a little doll, with gray-blue eyes wide open, pubescent black lashes. She boasted how she presented the gift Ilya Kabakov coat, while terribly fashionable, black, as broadtail. Very beautiful. This lovely woman Ilyusha, Lena, was director of cinema, it later with the son of director Alexandrova make a film about Lyubov Orlova. Helen came to invite me to dinner. She, as she could, helped me in difficult minute and tried to ease my sorrow. Ilya Kabakov was already divorced from Irene Rubanova, bought the car "Pobeda". Despite the divorce, he retained the wonderful relationship with his wife and her new husband, a daughter treated as a tender father, and wherever he was - at an evening at a concert, visiting friends - he went to meet his daughter with her mother and drove them home. I astonishment and thought: "No, Hulot, probably, so would not be never.

A little later, when I had all gathered, Elena told me that Ilya told her that she was leaving the studio and, in general, of his life. Why? I think he does not fit the secular life, which Helen ugotovila him, and he - a working stiff. Work time! How it reminds me of Hulot. Lena and I met in the Cinema House in twenty years, it was a different Helen. There remained only his eyes. In my opinion, she still loved Ilyusha. It so happened that on my wires in Israel, she sat next to Kabakov's wife, Victoria, feeling awkward, understandable only to me and them. Vika Kabakovo I had known a long time, even when we lived on the street Krasin. In the evening we once again came to light a young couple. It was a young writer Boris Nosik Mochalova and Victoria, the future, a very long time favorite, the wife of Ilya Kabakov. This pair was pretty, young, beautiful. I really liked Vic: intelligent, delicate, educated, all evident and all those interested. However, familiarity with a spout did not last long, and I saw in the future Vika, when she settled with Ilya far from us at the River Station, in a cooperative house artists. In fact, we could be friends for a long time, we loved too long!

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END STUDIO

In the meantime, found a buyer for the studio. It appeared to be an artist Alexei Smirnov. He participated in exhibitions Hulot, and in the latter - in Spain. But for some reason neither candidate Ilya on Sasha Bloch did not like. They wanted someone else, I do not intervened and agreed, but Alyosha, one evening I phoned home and told me to add a thousand more, because it is wanted, simply dreams of working in the studio Hulot. Kabakov reluctantly agreed and we began to arrange the sale. I took away all the things left over from the selected for the museum, drawings and paintings, and Ilya gave the keys to the back door. He was deprived of the elevator and did not come to the studio Hulot. He told me that in order to recharge your creativity by Hulot, he did not even have to talk to him, but only to look at it in the morning, and he could safely go to his studio work.

 

Tallinn - Tartu

 All honor the memory of Hulot. Before me stood the main question - what has become of all the paintings and drawings? Estonian artists invited to take all the Tallinn museum heritage Hulot. But the name of Hulot was banned in Estonia. Director of the Museum "Kadriorg" Inge Teder refused to take work. A director of a museum in Tartu Vaike Tiyk said that acceptance of work, an exhibition and catalog. If Hulot saw sent his paintings to the exhibition! Ilya Kabakov, invited museum packers, who laid the work of the special paper, so that, God forbid, not broken, not scratched. And once at the studio Soyuzmultfilm he puts his paintings under an electric, where the warmed water for coffee.

The result was a huge box, he was sent to luggage, and I went with a heavy bag train Moscow-Tartu. I was carrying engraving on zinc, boards about twenty. Hulot has recently decided to do the engraving for a living. I drove them to the museum, there printed prints for exhibition, and then they disappeared. Find them difficult. Someone keeps them. They were, like, from one artist, but she died, they had seen her son, and then they have got somewhere, so we were told. In general, we could not find anything.

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In Tartu the early morning I met Lembit Saarts. We took a box of pictures and went to him. Hulot and Lembit became friends during his studies at the "Pallas". Arrested, they were together. After his release, Lembit returned to Tartu, married and became an "enhanced", as told to Hulot, painting. His wife Sylvia and safeguarded in every way he carried countless hardships of life. She was very jealous of her friends who live in Tartu, the artist who, as she felt lured into their network of her husband. Lembit has brought me to his home where he lived with Sylvia, son and mother.

After breakfast Lembit opened the box, set up the picture and began to admire. He ran the studio, taking a picture of a white frame, in gray, and then the gold. He saw the picture as if they were women, and he tried on his hat to their toilets. Suddenly we heard a noise at the bottom of the car and were taken aback. Arrived Tallinners headed by Inge Teder. By the time Victor Reed has already reached and signed an agreement on the transfer of works in Tartu. Teder said that they are showing special funds for the purchase of works for Sooster Kadriorg Museum. Art critics seized a large number of works - painting and graphics. We Lembit danced for joy.

Tallinn option suited me more. Tartu at that time for foreigners was a closed city, so the museum Kadriorg "in Tallinn, leaving more opportunities to get acquainted with the works.

But then came the director of the Tartu Museum Vaike Tiyk with its employees, art. When I told her about the visit Tallinners and their desire to acquire part of the work, she remained calm and majestic. On the list of works prepared for transfer to Tartu, I flagged that selected Tallinners. The situation, of course, there was not easy. I well understand the feelings of Tartu director, who agreed to accept work after the pervonachalchalno in Tallinn, I was turned down. Of course, Mrs. Tiyk was indignant. It recently Kadriorg Museum, headed by Inge Gederathite afraid to take work, but now, of course, Vayk Tiyk did not want to share with them. But the interests of business were the most important thing to me. I am seriously worried that conflict. The rivalry between the two museums were very undesirable. Tallinners repeatedly came to Tartu selected for the work they do, but something always went wrong. That works restored, then photographed, then the director is not there, then something else. Director "Kadriorg" came to me in Moscow and complained, I wrote in Tartu, but in vain. As a result, Inge Teder so disliked me, that said they had heard about me and pictures Sooster no longer wishes ever.

We are greatly indebted Vaike Tiyk for the fact that thanks to her heritage Hulot was scattered throughout the world. Thanks to her for what she helped to keep the name Sooster and his work for the Estonian art.

Vaike Tiyk conveyed to me that the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers Edgar Tynurist wishes to have a picture of Hulot and that he is waiting for my consent. She gave his word that he is ready to help us, if we need anything, and that we could live in Estonia, if so wanted.

Again I went to Tallinn. At this time, to meet with Tynuristom. I so wanted to stay in this wonderful well-kept city, where I was beckoned the blue sky and blue sea. But I did not feel in Estonia its. I knew that we, the newcomers - the occupiers. I remember Hulot once introduced me to an Estonian artist, but he did not shake my hand and pretended not to hear my name. I was sitting in the company, near tears, and thought that I can not cry all the passers-by that I am your soul, that I love you all and that I am personally in no way guilty.

We Meedi went to the reception. Large room, a table with papers, he Tynurist small stature, modest and nice. Agreed on the sale of over three hundred rubles. He wanted to pay immediately, but I said let Mrs. Tiyk first pick for his work, and only then pay for. But soon he was removed from office for having refused to sign onerous for Estonian conditions of supply of products to other regions of the Union, as demanded by Moscow. So I was told. And now he still received. In his NÕMME house he ordered a specially designed wall, on which hung a picture Sooster. This Oleviste Church, buried in a stone bag. So Yulo expressed his attitude to the Soviet occupation.

Finally, in April 1971 in Tartu, the opening of the exhibition. Our Moscow artists were happy that the work Hulot found refuge in such a marvelous museum, and Hulot, a new admirer in the face of art-Marie Pillet, who later became a connoisseur of art Sooster.

At the exhibition came I. Kabakov, Yuri Sobolev, V. Reed, V. Yankilevsky, B. Zhutovski, V. Morozov, Khrzhanovsky, V. and J. Pivovarov. There were spots of artists Lembit Saarts, Kaya Kärneri, Sylvia Yygever, Lyuydia Vallimyae-Marc, Valvil Jani. Valvil most often came to Hulot in Moscow. She considered it a true bearer of contemporary art. From Tallinn arrived Valdur and Eetla Ohakas, Heldur Viyres, Henn and Esther Roode, Mullen and Heinz Valk, Jaan Klysheiko and many others. Was unable to attend Roman Minna. He could not survive the death of a friend and ill mental illness. He survived Hulot only ten years. Before his death, Roman ruined several donated his paintings. He gladly showed ruined paintings, saying that Hulot wanted to write them differently, and that he had them finally corrected. We have been so hard for this watch. Recently died and the wife of Roman, Valentina, my friend, the obligatory participant in our Krasin Tuesday.

Previously Hulot occasionally sent to Estonia to the exhibition their works. I think he sends them through the EP, which was in a friend. E. came to Moscow in the days when we lived on the street Krasin. The exhibition in Tartu of Green junipers "and" Round brown junipers, to our surprise, turned out to be labeled as property of P. Meedi was shocked to the core, because they gave her a picture of Hulot. EP returned Meedi pictures, but after this incident, we, unfortunately, no longer leave.

After the death of Hulot paintings he left behind few, only 50-60 works. Six paintings from Aunt Martha's in Sweden, a small amount spread over the world, some student works are with friends, with whom he studied together in school "Pallas".

 

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 The following spring, the Estonian Artists' Union asked us to bury Hulot in Tallinn at Forest Cemetery, on the Mets-kalmistu. In this cemetery are buried all the famous people of Estonia. On one hill - the writers, on the other - scientists, on the third - with artists and ... We agreed.

Moscow friends, family, Estonian, artists gathered in this sad day to pay tribute to Hulot. After the cemetery we went to the artistic club-cafe "Ku-Ku". Hulot not very fond of this place. Many times he sorted out where their relationship with peers in the work, fought with the artists. This evening was organized by Heinz rolls, the husband of his cousin, Mull. Candles burned, speeches, he has talked Hulot. It was beautiful, sad and wanted to cry.

One year after the death of Hulot. I called to Alyosha Smirnov and asked to visit the studio. Workshop of the I did not recognize. Surrounded by emptiness, it was kind of strange scary. I was scared and uncomfortable. In the middle of the shop stacked to the ceiling in a pile of canvases, frames, stretchers, everything was covered with some piece of cloth. It was like an Indian wigwam. I sat and looked at all these empty eyes, and pictures were gone through before my eyes. What is still a mystery hidden for his death? Who knows all the details? Who was here in those fateful moments?

Alesha said that he was going to sell the studio. He always felt fear, being there. Once he was visited by the ghost Hulot. I had a feeling that Alyosha did not solve all tell me that something is left unsaid. I left the studio, so that more there will never return.

After a while Alyosha sold the studio. He received the money and carried out his wigwam. The keys of the new owner had to pay the next day. Neighbor on the studio Sasha Bloch went to the store, buy myself something for breakfast. On his desk lay a finished book, which he was to pass to the publisher. Sasha returned from the store, went into the yard, and there - the crowd. Everyone looks up to the attic. Fire! All burned. Sasha burned the book, finished drawings, clothing, shop burned Hulot now till then.

What is it - fate? Arson? Short circuit? So is this a burned-out loft. No one will risk there, probably in the arts.

On this sad day came to see me friends Hulot. We arrived and rarely visited me Nemukhin and Vechtomov. Arrived and Vitaly Stesin. He said he went to Israel where he hopes together with Michael Grobmanom open the Center for Contemporary Art, in which artists will be exhibited in all directions. He asked me for work. I decided that I can not give the last work that hang with me and take pictures of the museums can not.

Family Grobmanov had already left. I was with them on wires. Sitting in the corner, and opposite me is Henry Sapgir and reads to his friend the poet Choline poems, written at departure Grobmanov. Around the crowded mass of artists, poets, critics, all are countless. I'm in that crowd was somehow lonely. Ira and Misha - part of my mature youth. And now leaving my hopes, my dreams went. Leaving our secret. Leaving friends and associates Hulot. How Hulot wanted to go with them!

Center for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem failed. Stesin long time do not live in Israel and then lived in Vienna, then in Cologne. Grobman settled in Tel Aviv, where Ira edits the literary and art journal "Mirror". There are many printed materials relating to our past life in Moscow.

Shortly after the fire in the publishing house "Literature" was published last book, illustrated by Hulot - "Spring" Oskar Luts. Hulot had great hopes for this book. In 1972, the All-Union competition for the best book she was awarded first prize. What's the prize if given, it is unclear even a diploma is not issued.

Sooster LI My Sooster. - Tallinn: Avenarius, 2000. - 176 pp.

[Valerit]

Putting work Sooster Hulot, who may not have known the Russian audience.
Two-way zhivopis.Karton canvas.

Добавлено через 5 минут
1946.
Oil on cardboard

On the reverse side of the picture

Добавлено через 7 минут
1958.
Oil on canvas.

This work, probably "came from Russia.
Purchased at auction Estonian

Добавлено через 4 минуты
1958.
Cardboard.

Добавлено через 12 минут
Oil on canvas.
The artist's hand on the back is written the name "Kaks akti" 1957-58

[Valerit]

1946.
Oil on cardboard

On the reverse side of the picture

[Valerit]

1958.
Oil on canvas.

This work, probably "came from Russia.
Purchased at auction Estonian

[Valerit]

1958.
Cardboard.