EVGENI FEDOROVICH ZHERDZITSKI (UKRAINIAN b.1928) The young builder Signed in Cyrillic and dated 64 (lower right) Oil on canvas 89 x 71cm (35 x 28in) Provenance: Studio of the artist, Kharkov, Ukraine Roy Miles Gallery, London  Purchased from the above by the present owner circa 1990 Born in Egorlytskaya, Rostov-on-Dog, Zherdzitski studied locally before attending Kharkov Art Institute in the late 1940s. He started exhibiting in 1954, and taught at Kharkov Art Institute from the early 1970s.