[DUBAI / LANDSCAPES] Four landscapes from Dubai: Young sailor, Scenery with ship, Farm in mountains, Old Dubai creek

YATSENKO, SERGEI (1958-).

[Dubai], 2006.

Later offset prints made on thick textured papers by the artist from his original watercolours. Originally mounted and gelatine-coated (one has been opened). Painting size: 13.5 x 20.5 cm; mounted size: 27 x 20 cm. Signed and dated by the artist in pencil on the lower right margin.

Four later offset printings (2006) from the artist’s original watercolours of Dubai, signed, titled, and dated by the artist at the lower centre and lower right corners of their original mounts. Made in 2004, these attractive watercolours depict two Arab children floating their small toy sailboats in the water near the wreck of a ship that has washed ashore on the ocean coast; Old Dubai Creek, where figures of all ages can be seen in the surroundings, a historic waterway that runs through the heart of Dubai, the centre of trade and pearl diving before Dubai’s modern development in the past; farm in mountains; and a scenery with ship. Printed and signed by the artist in 2006.

The Ukrainian painter Yatsenko, who comes from an immigrant family, as a journalist once said, "he took a pilgrimage to a finally free Estonia" and has continued his work in the United States, where he later settled.