Igor Golomstock (11 January 1929 - 12 July 2017) was a Jewish origin, Russian and English-language, London-based, world art historian.
He was the author of several books about Western artists like Pablo Picasso, Hieronymus Bosch, Paul Cézanne, Hans Holbein and Damien Hirst.
[2][3] After his Karaite Jew father, Naum Kojak, was sent to a gulag, his parents divorced and Igor took his mother's name.
[2] He was also a resident scholar at the Pushkin Museum, and he taught art history at his alma mater, Moscow University.
[2] In particular he showed that both Nazism and Stalinism depicted "industrious families, idealistic soldiers and compassionate leaders.