"I can only draw cats, that's not hard" – Valerian Yablochkyn.
We don't know much about him. We have some information from the memories of other artists, like Mykola Murashko, or from magazine articles. He was in Kharkiv in 1877—1883. Yablochkin called himself the "Raphael of cats." He spent two years in Kyiv with Murashko.
Mykola Murashko had a lot of cats in the house. And that is when Yablochkin became obsessed with cats. Cats became his models. From Kyiv, he moved to Putivl, Sumy region. He continued to paint cats for a couple of years and then died there.
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International terrorist organization known as Russia continues to leave hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian homeless.
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Vincent van Gogh
Still Life with French Novels and Glass with a Rose
1887
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