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Place of Birth: Vitebsk, Belarus
About Leonid Afremov
- Leonid Afremov (12 July 1955 – 19 August 2019) was a Russian–Israeli modern impressionistic artist who worked with palette knives and oils.
- Over the last 25 years, he developed his own personal style and technique which differentiates him from other artists.
- He painted mainly city scenes, vintage cars, seascapes, cats playing jazz and flowers. Afremov was born in Vitebsk, the same town where Marc Chagall began his artistic career.
- He developed his passion for painting in the USSR until 1990.
- That same year, due to constant discrimination related to his Jewish heritage and radiation from the Chernobyl disaster, he decided to move with his family to Israel.
- He settled down in the Tel Aviv area and opened an art gallery in Ashdod.
- In 2002, he moved to the United States and in 2004 he started selling his paintings on eBay.
- Internet exposure resulted in big success and he immediately received positive approval from customers.
- After eight years in the United States, in March 2010 he moved to Playa del Carmen, Mexico where he lived for nine years. On 19 August 2019 Leonid Afremov suffered a cardiac arrest at his home and died hours later in the general hospital.
- He was buried in a traditional Jewish ceremony in the municipal cemetery of Playa del Carmen.
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