Art of Casanova - Matching game ongoing

[Sandy Meyers]

Very interesting, if that Valentina's set was published on December 2009 that means Casanova was still painting in 2010.
I haven't checked any dates, but that might be one of the most recent.

No, no, ArtFan, situation is a little bit more complicated than that. As I had published at my & GWAZ (https://viper.cx/threads/1111573-Gal...-(1999-2021) ) & GMbOA (https://viper.cx/threads/1377909-Gal...in-Works-A-Z ) threads originally Valentina Galitsin - Irina Aleksandrovna Pischasova [Ирина Александровна Писчасовой] at that time- was a Babenko's girl. ATOR explained to us that Sergey Babenko "and GG came together from St-Petersbourg to do again their lives in Volgograd (why?) and they were to be rather poor... Their plan? Photograph nude girls, just the legal age or a little less..." around 1994-1996.

There Babenko managed to had been close involved with local sex industry (striptease clubs, model agencies, special schools for girls, etc. https://viper.cx/threads/1377909-Gal...post12097313 ) from almost their arrival (https://viper.cx/threads/1111573-Gal...post81070664 ) and eventually he started to run his own set of girls.

Irina was one of those and he rented her to Master Galitsin almost as soon as he acquired her -on January 2001- and after 9 months of hard whork for the Master Babenko and Galitsin fighted about the right price of Irina services -now that she was a world wide success- and because Galistin sublet her to Yuri Devyatkin (https://viper.cx/threads/1377909-Gal...post12131643 ), so Babenko decided to stop renting her services to Galitsin and shot some pictures of her by himself

Those pictures were published at Most Erotic Teens on November 26th, 2001, but Master Galitsin asked Maurizio Maranghi (PhotoItaly founder and owner, the site that eventually was renamed Most Erotic Teens and later Met Art) to delete them from the site the day after the set was published. Maranghi was a close business partner of the Master so he did it so, but Babenko republished them first at the Dirty Old Men Association International site (later called D.O.M.A.I or DOMAI) starting at December 10th, 2001:

https://viper.cx/threads/1377909-Gal...post12045051



https://viper.cx/threads/1377909-Gal...post14404835

Master Galitsin & Sergey Babenko eventually agreed again the right price for Irina services, but when the Master decided to keep her as a wife because she was particularly docile to his tastes and needs and make the necessary arrangements with Babenko's partners, Babenko fought with the Master, managed to cause his arrest and finally even tried to kill him (https://viper.cx/threads/1111573-Gal...post41160545 )

Later Babenko founded his own erotic site called Erotic Flowers where he used several of the girls he rented to Master Galitsin (https://viper.cx/threads/1377909-Gal...post13688477 ) and when the Master was in prision he republished those pictures of Irina there ([https://viper.cx/threads/1377909-Gal...post12047836 ).

Now that both are dead I think I can tell the plain story.

So, you must consider 2001-2002 as the first date that picture was published, not 2009, dear ArtFan

[ArtFan]

Wow, that makes much more sense because it seem's Casanova's activity was tightly packed around 2002 and 2005 and then a sudden stop. I hope someone with biographic info, or connected with the painter sees this thread and takes the mystery away.
I also feel sorry for the tragic story surrounding Irina and the Master, wondering how much of that could have been avoided. Such a waste of time and talent! Even life at stake and years in prison. So unnecessary and sad.