Spring

Sunrise

A large pastel of a winter village at daybreak. The artist recorded that the work came from a holiday spent in the countryside: "Arriving in winter for the holidays and rising in the morning, I saw a wonderful sunrise."

The morning moon

A framed pastel landscape holding the moon in a pale early sky, worked in the realist manner that runs through the artist's drawings.

Spring in Bulgaria

A wide, panoramic spring scene painted in Bulgaria, one of the works the artist made outside Ukraine. Oil on pressed cardboard in a realist register.

By the Spring. Olbia

Haiane Ataian

Ataian's diploma painting from the Kyiv State Art Institute, set at the ancient Greek site of Olbia on the Black Sea coast. The museum also holds some twenty preparatory studies and drawings for it, making it one of her most thoroughly documented works.