Victor Puzirkov oil painting on canvas. Signed and dated "54" lower left. An exquisite original still life of white hydrangea, irises and red peony flowers in a blue jasper vase on a round tabletop covered with lace tablecloth. Viktor Grigorievich Puzirkov (Puzyrkov, Пузырков, Пузирков) was a Ukrainian artist who was born in 1918 in Dnipro (Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine. Artist Information: Graduate of National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine. In 1946 the artist became a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. In 1947, at the All-Union Exhibition in Moscow, he was declared a mature master of the Ukrainian realistic school. In the same year he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR. n 1950 he received the second USSR State Prize for achievements in the field of fine arts. In1957 he was approved in the rank of professor of the department "Painting and Composition", awarded an honorary diploma of the Ministry of Culture of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1976 was awarded the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR named after Taras Shevchenko. In 1989, a personal exhibition of works by Viktor Puzyrkov was held at the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv. Measures approx 23 1/4" x 31" image size and 29 3/4" x 37 1/2" frame size