Ukrainian folk artist, Kateryna Bilokur (1900-1961), was a self-taught virtuosa of primitive art and decorative folk painting. Her paintings of flowers and fruit in gardens, orchards, and fields, still lifes, and portraits and self-portraits display originality, vivid colouring, and great attention to detail.

She was born into poverty in a remote and obscure village in the Ukraine, and relatively few people knew of her work in her lifetime. However, when some of her works found their way to western Europe and were exhibited in Paris in 1954, it is said that none other than Pablo Picasso viewed and became entranced by her paintings, saying that if her works were widely known, she would be the talk of the world.

In 1956 she was named the 'People’s Artist of Ukraine', and she has been recognised as one of the greatest artists ever to emerge from the Ukraine.

This is her 1942 painting, Flowers at Night.

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