About the artist:

Born 23.04.1926, village Burimka (now Chernihiv region) – Died 16.10.2007, Kiev. Painter and graphic artist, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1960), holder of the title People’s Artist of Ukrainian SSR (from 1990). World War II participant. Graduated at the Odessa School of Art (1952), and the Kiev Institute of Art, where he studied under K. D. Trohimenko, V. Kostetskiy, and V. G. Puzyrkov (1958). Taught in Kiev Institute of Art (became professor in 1981). Worked in easel paintings and graphics genres.Works: "The Sun has Risen," "Kachanovskaya Vanity" (both in 1947), "Walkers from Chernigov" (1958), "Over the Quiet Uday River" (1965), "Tankers", "Our Class" (1970), "Mothers" (1980), "The Feast in Cherkassy Land" (1986), "Gonta near Uman" , "Feeling of  the United Family" (both in 1991), "My Great Kind, My Beautiful Kind" (1992-1995), "Spiritual Ukraine" (1992-1997), a series of portraits of the Ukrainian culture figures etc.