TATIANA YABLONSKAYA (1917-2005) Portrait of a woman

signed in Cyrillic in pencil ‘T Yablonskaya’ (lower right); dedicated in Georgian and dated ‘1966 14/IV’, ownership stamp of Igor Dichenko collection (on the reverse) monotype 27.5 x 27.5 cm executed in 1966 Provenance: Collection of Igor Dichenko (Ihor Dychenko) (1946-2015), Soviet and Ukrainian collector, art historian, and painter; one of the ideologists of the Ukrainian avant-garde, Kyiv. Private collection, Europe Tatiana Yablonskaya, a Russian-Ukrainian painter, was celebrated for her portraits, genre scenes, and luminous landscapes. Trained at the Kiev Art Academy, she was a professor and member of the USSR Artists’ Union. Her work combines realism with poetic sensitivity, blending Soviet pictorial traditions with a distinct personal style.