The novelist's father was a great painter - and a new display shows us why, says John Russell Taylor.

... Visual Art: The novelist's father was a great painter - and a new display shows us why, says John Russell Taylor Pasternak senior enters the picture The name of Pasternak inevitably conjures visions of Doctor Zhivago. But Boris was not the only distinguished member of the clan: his father Leonid (1862 - 1945) was one of the outstanding Russian painters of his generation. So one might expect to find a Leonid Pasternak Museum somewhere in Russia. But oddly enough he is relatively little known in Odessa where he was born, or Moscow where he lived and worked for 40 years. On the other hand, he is well on the way to becoming famous in Oxford, where the Pasternak Trust has just opened a museum devoted to him and his work, and a retrospective of his paintings is due to open at the Ashmolean on June 22. From this you might guess that Pasternak's reputation

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