Golts Nika Georgievna
The street of Siena.

The street of Siena.
Year: 1995.
Technique: Watercolor, whitewash on construction paper.
Size: 32,5х25.

Signed lower right.

Golts Nika Georgievna (1925 — 2012).

Soviet book illustrator. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2000). In 1943-1950. studied at the Moscow State Art Institute named after V.I.Surikov at the monumental department in the studio of N.M. Chernyshev. She owns frescoes in the building of the Natalia Sats Children's Musical Theater in Moscow, including two panels based on sketches by her father Georgy Golts. Since 1953 she has been working in book and easel graphics. Books with illustrations were published by publishing houses: "Children's Literature", "Soviet Artist", "Soviet Russia", "Russian Book", "Pravda", "Art Literature", "EKSMO-Press", etc. Known for illustrations of fairy tales and fantastic works (folklore, Hoffman, Gogol, Perrot, Andersen, Odoevsky, Anthony Pogorelsky, etc.). Since 1964 she has been participating in international exhibitions. In 2006 she was awarded the H.-K. Andersen of the International Council for Children's Books (IBBY) for illustrations to the collection "The Big Book of Andersen's Best Tales." The works of N.G. Golts are kept in museums and private collections in Russia and abroad.