Portrait of a Young Girl holding a Kitten~Valentin Danilovitch Bernadski (Copy)

Valentin Danilovitch Bernadski

(1917-2011) Ukrainian

Portrait of a Young Girl holding a Kitten, seated in a Summer Garden

Oil on Canvas: 30 x 25 in. Frame 35 x 30 in. Signed in Cyrillic, and Signed and Inscribed on reverse in Cyrillic.c.1980’s

Valentin Danilovitch Bernadski was born in Ozeryane, Chernihiv region of Ukraine in 1917. He studied at the renowned I. E. Repin Institute 1940-50, and began exhibiting in 1952.He was a teacher at Sympheropl Art College 1950-52.

Awarded medal of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (1998). He was a professor in Crimean Art School (1950-1952). Participated in exhibitions: Republican (1954), Union (1950), personal – 1988, 2002 (Kyiv), 1992 (Paris). Major works: “Meeting in Dzhankoy” (1952); “Crimean Autumn” (1959 – 1960); “In the vineyard” (1961)

Member of the National Union of artists of Ukraine People’s Artist of Ukraine (1950), People`s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1989) and the Russian Federation (2003).

Represented in art museums of Ukraine. He lived and worked in Simferopol, died on September 21, 2011.

Gallery notes: A very good example of Soviet Impressionist painting, warm and colourful impasto, and lovely use of light.