Evgeny Tkachenko, 1923 to 2002, Ukrainian, oil painting on cardboard, featuring a female portrait. Signed and dated lower right. Evgeny Tkachenko was a Soviet Ukrainian painter. Member of the USSR Academy of Arts. Was a participant in the Great Patriotic War. He was wounded in 1944. In 1949, he came to Odessa, and entered the Odessa Grekov Art College, where he discovered the world of impressionism. It was this southern city that gave the artist a sense and understanding of the extraordinary importance of the state of the air, its transparency, taught him to pay attention to the details that give the paintings liveliness and accuracy. He lived and worked in Odessa and Kiev. The author of lyrical landscapes and portraits. The works are kept in private collections and museum collections. Collectible Oil Paintings, Portrait Painting, Wall Decor, and Colleblites.