Oleksa Hryshchenko was born in
southern Ukraine in 1883.
He studied philology and biology in the Universities of Kyiv, Petersburg and
Moscow, and during that time took an interest in painting.
In 1909-10 he studied in the Moscow
School of Art. Before World War I, he
traveled to Paris and Italy and became an
aficionado of modern painting, particularly
cubism.
Rather than remain in Moscow after
the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, he fled
south in 1919 to Constantinople where he
befriended the American art collector
Thomas Whittemore, who purchased 66 of
his watercolor paintings.
In 1921 he moved to Paris where his
watercolors were put on exhibit alongside
the paintings of Ferdinand Legier.
After 1924 he lived in southern
France where he married. He continued to
exhibit in the leading galleries of Paris and
Europe. Over 200 of his works today are in
American and Canadian collections.
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