The portrait under our study refers to the classical cycle of portrait images created by A.T. Zverev in the 1960’s and brought him the fame of one of the most brilliant bohemian portrait painters. The best works of this cycle had a pronounced expressionistic character, where bold combinations of colors, their sonorous, assertive color, blots and smudges, splashes and powerful confident lines determined the artistic style and method of Zverev's work at that time. The portrait under study is written lively, energetically, and decoratively. Zverev masterfully writes with oil, striving for lightness, airiness and decorative play of colors. The image of the depicted, seriously posing, tense girl in glasses turned out amusing, a bit ironic, but, at the same time, gentle. Probably, this is one of the best children's picturesque portraits by AT. Zverev in the beginning of the 1960’s.

Valery Silaev