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Night Lights. From the series "Industrial Ukraine"

ID:
1159
Inventory number:
Гр-472 КН-35340
Type:
Graphics
Material:
paper
Techniques:
watercolor
Dimensions:
72x51 cm
Author:
Hennadii Polovyi

Hennadii Petrovych Polovyi was a Ukrainian graphic artist and publicist. He was born on June 3, 1927 in Odesa. In 1950, he was arrested on charges of creating an anti-Soviet youth organization. From 1950 to 1954, he worked in logging. In 1954, he was rehabilitated. In 1960, he graduated from the Kyiv Art Institute, Department of Graphics, Easel Graphics Workshop of Professor O. Pashchenko. His teachers in the specialty were V. Kasiian, I. Pleshchynskyi, and O. Pashchenko. Polovyi worked in various genres of painting and was a recognized master of the landscape, creating the series "Crimea. Karadag" (1969), "Pearl Carpathians" (1990), "Willows of Ukraine" (1997-2007), "Evening Lights of Kyiv" (2000-2002), cycles of landscapes from trips to Siberia, Buryatia, Sayan Mountains, Yakutia, Bulgaria, and the Caucasus, and other works. He held more than 20 personal exhibitions. Some of his works are in local history and art museums of Ukraine and private collections. Polovyi died on May 4, 2017 in Kyiv.

Date of creation:
1970
Preservation:
complete preservation
Location:
unknown
Provenance:
Transferred by the Exhibition Directorate of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Act No. 3035 dated 04/03/1984.
Date of record to the inventory book:
24.04.1984
Item description from the inventory book:
Most of the image is taken up by the dark outlines of blast furnaces and coastal lights. They are reflected in a strip of water depicted in the foreground. The dominant color is yellow-brown.