An outstanding Ukrainian artist. He worked in the fields of the easel and monumental painting, book illustration. Born in the village of Vyshnopoli, Cherkasy region. He studied at the icon painting workshops in Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (1876 - 1882), Kyiv Drawing School under the guidance of M. Murashko (1882 - 1884) and St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. Author of a number of paintings of Ukrainian historical theme, illustrations to the works of Taras Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka, Ivan Kotlyarevskyi, Ivan Franko and numerous drawings devoted to the theme of national life. He participated in the restoration of frescoes in the Cyrilivska Church and painting of Vsihsvyatska and Pokrovska churches. People's Artist of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic since 1951. His works are presented in the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Art Museum of Zaporizhzhya and in other museums of Ukraine.
Painters works:Auction ¹18 Lot ¹27
«Sammer day», 1955
board, oil; 24,5õ34
«Donkey and the Nightingale», 1936
paper, mixed technique; 21,5õ15
«Rise of of the peasants», IInd quarter 20thC
paper on cardboardå; 31õ44;
on the back - the signature
«Summer landscape», 1955
cardboard, oil; 24,5õ34
«Cross procession», Isr half 20thC
paper, pencil; 21õ28,5
«The Decembrists in Transbaikalia», end 1950s.
cardboard, mixed media, 46õ61
