Oil on canvas, signed in Cyrillic on the left: "Ю Киянченко."
Dimensions: 69x118.
Yuriy Georgiy Vasilyevich Kiyantchenko (Obukhiv 1911 – 1989 Kyiv) was a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, and poster artist. Starting in 1932, he studied painting at the High School of Fine Arts in Kyiv, then attended the Kyiv Academy of Fine Arts, from which he graduated in 1939. He was a student of professors K. Trokijmenko, P. Volokidin, A. Shovkunenko, and F. Krichevsky. He participated in numerous exhibitions. He was a member of the Artists’ Union. His works are housed in the Odessa Art Museum. He was a landscape painter and creator of still lifes and Socialist Realist industrial compositions.
