Vasily Bozhenko Artemievich (1936): Stilleven met kastanjes ('Kastanjes'), olie op board, gedateerd 1990

Work: ca. 71,5 x 60,5 cm 

Frame: 79 x 68,5 cm 

The Ukrainian artist Vasily Bozhenko (or Bojenko) Artemievich (°7 February 1936, Novoraysk, Kherson) studied at the Dnipropetrovsk Art College (1963-1968) and the Odessa Pedagogical Institute, where he graduated in 1978. He became a teacher of fine art at the Berislavsky Pedagogical School.  He has exhibited regularly in Ukraine (Kiev, Odessa, Kherson, Kakhova, Berislav, etc.). In 1996, the Ukrainian television made a film about his life and work ('Thank you to the master').