Calm (Calm Waters)

Petro Stepanovych Sulymenko was a Ukrainian painter. He was born on July 16 (29), 1914 in Katerynodar (now Krasnodar, Russia). He studied at the Krasnodar Art School (1932 to 1934), the Rostov Art School (1935 to 1936). He graduated from the Kyiv Art Institute (1947). His teachers in the specialty were O. Syrotenko, O. Fomin, O. Shovkunenko. He worked in the field of easel painting. Master of portrait and landscape. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1947). He participated in art exhibitions: republic (starting in 1946), all-Union (starting in 1947), foreign (starting in 1950). A special place in his work is occupied by works created by the artist during creative trips to Egypt, Singapore, Vietnam, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Guinea and other countries of Africa, Asia and Europe. His works are presented in state and private collections in Ukraine and abroad. He lived and worked in Kyiv. He died in 1996.