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Martin Lawrence Galleries invites you to meet renowned romantic realist, Liudmila Kondakova, on her 2nd tour of the United States. Exhibitions begin in Los Angeles, CA on Thursday, November 12th. She will appear at additional shows in La Jolla, CA on Friday, November 13th, Newport Beach, CA on Saturday, November 14th, Geary Street in San Francisco on November 15th, New Orleans, LA on Friday, November 20th, Oak Brook (Chicago), IL on Saturday, November 21st, Dallas, TX on Sunday, November 22nd, Boston, MA on Friday, December 4th and Beach Street in San Francisco on Saturday, December 12th.

Exhibits will feature Ms. Kondakova's newest hand-signed limited edition serigraph on canvas, Le Pont Neuf, a stunning night time scene of Paris featuring the Pont Neuf and Eiffel Tower in lights. This sanfran tour will also present the very rare opportunity to acquire from twenty new original gouaches that Ms. Kondakova has painted from scenes in Ernest Hemingway's memoirs "A Moveable Feast" "Each of these strikingly detailed originals are classic works by Kondakova. They absolutely capture the essence of Hemingway’s Paris, and we fully expect that they will all be sold before the end of the tour", cautions Eric Dannemann, President of Martin Lawrence Galleries.

Liudmila Kondakova is known for painting images of Paris and other beautiful European cities. The works are meticulous in detail and rich with color, clarity and light. Since her childhood in Russia, Kondakova has been fascinated by traditional art. Graduating from the Grabar Center in Moscow, Russia's School of Scared Arts and the Moscow Art Institute, she credits her apprenticeship with the monastic icon painters at St. Alexi Cathedral as her most influential training. Ms. Kondakova has stated that she is looking forward to touring the United States again this year so that she can meet collectors and personally introduce her latest works.

Martin Lawrence Galleries is renowned for offering the finest quality artworks and for maintaining the highest level of integrity and ethical standards in service to their clients. Over the last fifteen years, they have loaned two hundred fifty artworks to over thirty museums world-wide.