Portrait of Adé Print

This is one of my first paintings. I painted this portrait when I was 18. Adé was an old woman at that time. She was a neighbor of mine. Our families were quite close to each other. Once I asked her to stay still and started to paint her portrait on the canvas. But she was not able to do that properly, because she had a habit of constant moving. Somehow I convinced her to sit as much still as possible. After I finished my work, I showed it to her. She looked at it amazedly and said, “Yeah, Lyova, that's exactly me!! That's me!!”)