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The New Pier (Illichivka)

ID:
100
Inventory number:
Ж-100 КН-7757
Type:
Paintings
Material:
canvas
Techniques:
oil
Dimensions:
130x130 cm
Author:
Oleksii Popov

Oleksii Oleksiiovych Popov was an artist and painter. He was born on May 24, 1916 at Hailar station in Northern Manchuria (now Primorsky Krai, Russia). In 1934, the artist's family moved to Ukraine. He studied at the Odesa Institute of Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Architecture, where his teachers were Yu. Bershadsky, M. Zamechek, and I. Zeiliher. He participated in World War II. From 1948, Popov was a member of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR, and from 1975, an Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. He worked in the field of easel painting and graphics. He participated in art exhibitions starting in 1934. His personal exhibitions were in Odesa (1966, 1990 - posthumously), Varna (Bulgaria, 1967), Chisinau (1968), Izmail (1974), Kyiv (1977), and Moscow (1984). His main works include "On the Pass. Carpathians", "Philharmonic", "Garden City", "In the Urals", "Old Town. Warsaw", "Vistula River. Warsaw", "Roofs. Varna", and others. He died on November 22, 1988 in Odesa. Some of his works are kept in art and local history museums of Ukraine.

Date of creation:
1960
Preservation:
At the top, on the left, there are traces of restoration, dents. At the right edge, higher from the center, there is a small dent with loss of the paint layer. The image of the embankment shows stains of pollution.
Location:
unknown
Provenance:
Transferred by the Exhibition Directorate of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR. Act No. 1405 dated 03.16, 1972.
Date of record to the inventory book:
09.04.1981
Item description from the inventory book:
Original. In the lower part of the painting, there are concrete slabs. Beyond them, a strip of sea bay appears with seagulls; on the far side, an embankment rises. Below it, near the water, a dump truck and figures of people are visible. Above the embankment, a port crane towers. To its left, there is a ship. The sky, filled with dark clouds, occupies most of the composition. In the lower right corner, the inscription reads: "А. Popov".