A Blossoming Garden with Poppies

On the Khutir. Mala Danylivka

A quiet study of a Ukrainian farmstead near Kharkiv, capturing rural light and atmosphere.

Apple Tree in Bloom

One of Berkos's last works, a flowering apple tree in spontaneous, light-filled brushwork.

Summer in Ukraine (Summer in Little Russia)

Petro Levchenko

Requested priority title «Літо в Україні», via its historical variant «Лето в Малороссии».

Spring

Mariia Bashkirtseva

A large decorative panel, begun from studies made in an old orchard, showing a young woman leaning back against a tree with her eyes closed and a faint smile, wrapped in blossoming apple and peach branches. Bashkirtseva described the idea in her diary as a figure dissolved into a tender green landscape, and painted it in the same muted browns and greens Bastien-Lepage used for his plein-air peasants.