Printmaker, especially of colour lithographs, born in Moscow, in the Soviet Union, where he studied at the Academy of Art. In 1972 he emigrated to Israel and then moved to London. He went to Paris in 1975 and returned to London at the start of the 1980s, becoming a British citizen in 1983. After that he divided his time between the two capitals. Although he had a show in Cambridge in 1973 and at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, in 1993, his first exhibition in London did not take place until 1996, at the William Weston Gallery. By that time he had had over 50 one-man shows around the world. Using soft, muted colours, Kuper depicted simple objects, such as a plate with an apple or a mug with a sprig of flowers, making the maximum use of the light and space around them.