A gorgeous coffee table book by renowned Ukranian artist, Valentin Popov.

Popov's body of art ranges so broadly that he could open his own museum. Trained classically, he can paint realism or romanticism like the old masters. In fact, in his Rembrandt series he paints pieces of old Rembrandts into his collages, and honestly, one could be hard-pressed to determine the difference between his and the 'real thing'. He has done printmaking, illustration, and etchings. He etched the illustrations for an edition of Ivan Turgenev's Torrents of Spring. (These etchings were included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and won the USSR's Academy of Fine Art's silver medal.) He has worked with lithographs and monotypes. He has painted in oil, in both realism and abstract styles. He has endless collages of paper, paint, wood, and more. And then there was the Crucifixion of St. Batman, a performance piece.

He is currently working on an important installation of his work for Louis Vuitton at the flagship stores in the U.S. and Europe.

Check out his website at www.popov.com