"Motifs of India," by Andrei Potapenko, c.1953

Source: ebay, Feb. 2005

"Andrei Potapenko (b.1925), "Motifs of India", Oil Paintings, ca.1953. Andrei Ilich Potapenko was born in 1925 in the province Ekaterinoslav in Ukraine. He studied at the Dnepropetrovsk Art College until 1947 and was active in Dnepropetrovsk. The artist was a member of the Ukrainian Union of Artists participating regularly in exhibitions in his town as well as regional and republican exhibitions."