2026 — Gallery Odesa

Let's look at the most popular requests in the art world — conducting expertise for exporting paintings abroad and attribution (establishing or confirming authorship). Conducting this type of expertise requires extensive experience and a positive reputation. The lead expert and founder of the gallery is Linda Strautman, an art historian expert with over 15 years of experience in the art field, and a current lecturer at the South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky. This came about historically, as Linda Strautman is the granddaughter of the People's Artist of Ukraine, the talented Odessa painter Albin Gavdzinskiy . Therefore, the path into the art world was destined for Linda Strautman since childhood. First, her grandfather taught her to understand the basics of painting, then he taught her to distinguish quality work and identify forgeries, and finally, her professional environment expanded to many artists of the Odessa school.