She worked very productively until the very end of her life, reportedly painting her last pastel study on the very day of her death.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetyana_Yablonska) - Tatyana Yablonskaya said she was in love with life. - It's true. Mom felt the joy of life, even in such a difficult situation, as in recent years. My daughter Ira on the day of the funeral, said about her: "My grandmother's life was not empty." Every day my mother filled something. If I could not draw and read, I was thinking about something. Sometimes I would ask her in the morning: "Mom, how did you sleep?" She replied: "I did not sleep - I sang songs." Apparently, very quietly. Mom knew a lot of poetry. She was a deep woman. Inspiration, however, scooped up in the work. When she started drawing with her left hand, it became a great source of joy. The doctor who treated her in recent years, said that if she had not worked all this time, she would not have lived so long - almost 90 years. Her last pastel is "Bellflowers". Every day my mother painted in the kitchen, sitting in a wheelchair by the window. She tried to capture the changing state of nature: morning and evening, cloudy and sunny weather, seasons. The picture outside the window was constantly changing. Sometimes inspiration came quite unexpectedly. Sometimes, when the dishes remained on the table after breakfast, she said: "Do not touch!" If you rearrange the cups and other utensils, it will turn out not at all. (Google translation of interview with the artists daughter at http://smolnarod.ru/sn/doch-tatyany-yablonskoj-u-mamy-s-detstva-nablyudalos-ogromnoe-stremlenie-risovat/)