A prominent Ukrainian artist. Born in the city of Izum, Kharkiv region. He studied at the Drawing School of D. Bezperchyi and M. Ranevskaya - Ivanova in Kharkiv and then at St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1876 - 1885) in M. Klodt and V. Orlovskyi art studios. In1885 he got a large gold medal and the title of a class artist of the 1st degree. Pensioner of the Academy of Arts in England, France, Spain, Germany and Italy (1886 - 1888). Since 1888 he had had lived in Kharkiv. Together with M. Samokish he prepared the albums "From Ukrainian Antiquity" (1900), "Motifs of Ukrainian ornament" (1912). Author of numerous historical and genre landscapes and paintings. The works are stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the NAMU, the Kharkiv Art Museum, etc.
Painters works:Auction ¹19 Lot ¹20
«Great snipe swamp»,
beginning 20thC
wood, oil; 23,5õ36,5
«Gelendzhik», late 1880s
wood, oil; 23,5õ36,5
Album of preparatory drawings of the 12 sheets to the publication "From ancient Ukrainian» ,1890-s
paper, graphite pencil, watercolor; 20,5õ14,5
«Khorunzhii» (to the album «From the Ukrainian antiquity»), late XIXthC
canvas, oil; 32,5õ24
«An evening quietness», beginning 20thC
paper, pencil; 7õ14,5
«Landscape», 1910s
cardboard, oil; 10õ23
«The outskirts of Kiev», late 19thC - beginning 20thC
cardboard, oil; 16,5õ10,5
