About the artist:

Born 18.03.1939 village Dzhurchi (from 1944 Pervomayski village, Crimea. Painter. Holder of the title “People's Artist of Ukraine” (from 1992).  Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine (from 1968). Honorary artist of Ukraine (from 1979).People’s akin of Ukraine (from 1985).  National artist of Ukraine (1992). Member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine (from 1997). Studied at the Simferopol College of Art (1954-1959). Graduated from Kiev Institute of Art, where he studied under K. Trohimenko, N. Pysanka and N. Storoghenko (1965). Taught at the Kiev Institute of Art (from 1969, professor from 1987). Author of thematic painting, portrait and still life. Contributed to republican, All-Union and international exhibitions (from 1965). Works: "First Spring" (1966), "Self-Portrait" (1969), "On the Volga. Year 1919"(1970), "Mothers are Waiting. Years 1945, 1946 ..."(1974), "Blossoming Flax..." (1977), a triptych "Memory" (1985), "Autumn", "Six Red Roses"(both in 1988), "The Man from prison" (1991), "The Black Sun of 1933" (1993), "I bow to you, Mother" (1994), "The Source. Maria Primachenko"(1995), "Holiday" (1997) etc.