Sasha Putrya (; December 2, 1977 – January 24, 1989) was a Ukrainian artist who became notable through painting thousands of artworks, before dying at the age of 11 from

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Biography

Sasha (Oleksandra) Putrya was born on 2 December 1977 and lived in the region of

Poltava Poltava (, ; , ) is a city located on the Vorskla, Vorskla River in Central Ukraine, Central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Poltava Oblast as well as Poltava Raion within the oblast. It also hosts the administration of Po ...

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. Having started

painting Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

at the age of 3, by the time of her death at age 11, she had created around 2,279 paintings and drawings, many of which are collected within 46 albums and are on display in Poltava Art Museum in Poltava, Ukraine. She had an intense interest in

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, though she had never been there—she loved the country, its music, clothes, and customs, and even dreamed of marrying the Indian film actor

Mithun Chakraborty Mithun Chakraborty (born Gouranga Chakraborty; 16 June 1950) is an Indian actor, film producer, screenwriter, entrepreneur and politician who predominantly works in Hindi cinema, Hindi and Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. In a career spa ...

. Sasha Putrya died on 24 January 1989 of

. She was buried, dressed in Indian saris with a small photo of Mithun Chakraborty, her lifetime talisman.

Notes and references

External links

Sasha Putrya artwork

Article about her work and awards

Sasha Putrya's museum
1977 births 1989 deaths Artists from Poltava Deaths from leukemia Deaths from cancer in the Soviet Union 20th-century Ukrainian women artists 20th-century Ukrainian painters {{Ukraine-painter-stub