Oil/canvas, "Still life without a watermelon", signed lower left, inscribed and dated 2012 on the reverse, unframed, approx. 80 x 80 cm, the artist from the Ukraine studied painting at the Charkov vocational art school from 1980 to 1984, educated afterwards continued at the Industrial Art Academy in Charkov to become a graphic designer, since 1989 exhibitions in the USSR, since 1996 place of work in Germany, 1997 member of the Chemnitz Artists' Association and the Federal Association of Visual Artists