Ivan Valtchev  

469 West 57th Street #1E New York , NY 10019-1708

  Tel (212) 757-0096. E-mail voditel@msn.com

Elaine Moran points Ivan Valtchev as a direct descendent  of the Renaissance Masters with their perfect techniques.  She compares at length Valtchev’s prints to William Blake illustrated manuscripts concluding: “ In doing so, Valtchev is better able to express man's archetypal struggle to master his instincts. And while Blake juxtaposes massive human males with feminine jestures and attitudes to emphasize the paradox of man's mastery over the earth yet spiritual submission to the will of God, Valtchev dramatizes both the celebration of our material condition and the tension between man and the beast which is himself.”(Washington Art Reporter, September-October 1988).  

...his action portraits demonstrate Valtchev's skill in draftsmanship. "Red Greek Dancers", an etching of 1975, is in the collection of the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., and "Mystery" is at the Metropolitan Museum, while the etching "A Bull" is in the New Orleans Museum. By choosing the Indian dances, Ivan Valtchev has scope to depict well, by the means of his fine European training, the nature of the American Indian, as well as his culture and his relationship to. ( Art speak International - in: New York, May 16, 1990)