Garage Sale Painting - Nadia Werbitsky / Natalie Lembersky

Hi there,

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This past weekend I picked up a painting at a garage sale in my neighborhood. One of the tenants of the building, familiar with the previous owner informed me that my new acquisition was painted by Nadia Werbitsky. The signature at the bottom of the painting in fact reads, N. Lembersky, '61.

We believe that this was the married name of the artist that she took after moving to the US.

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Does anyone have insight to how much this may be worth if legit? https://imgur.com/a/GTxLqYB

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"Nadia Werbitzky was born in the Soviet Union in 1922. Her father, Dimitri Verbitsky, died in the GULAG. He was a victim of Stalinist purges in the late 1930s. Her mother, Teodora Verbitskaya, and sister Lucya lived in the city of Mariupol on the shore of the Azov Sea. They experienced deprivation, starvation, and oppression under the Soviet regime.

In 1942, during World War II, Mariupol was occupied by the Germans and the family was deported to Germany where they were confined to several labor camps. At the end of the war the family was liberated by the American army. Nadia began to study at the Meisterschulle of Cologne at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. After graduation she moved to Toronto. It was here that Nadia met her future husband – John Lembersky – who was a Russian American. She was granted U.S. citizenship through her marriage and became Natalie Lembersky. Her husband was an American diplomat and the couple traveled extensively throughout Europe which allowed Nadia to study the works of the Great Masters. During this period she refined her technique and began to exhibit her works in 1961. Her exhibitions were hosted in the States and in Germany, as well as Iran; the painting, “Eternal Motherhood” won first prize at Frankfurt’s International Art Exhibition in 1973."