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Shevchenkiana of A. Syvak

ID:
1321
Inventory number:
Гр-633 КН-41783
Type:
Graphics
Material:
paper
Techniques:
linocut
Dimensions:
10x15 cm
Author:
Anatolii Syvak

Anatolii Nykanorovych Syvak was a Ukrainian graphic artist. He was born in 1930 in Donetsk. He studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (1964-1970). He worked in the genre of bookplates, book graphics, and watercolors. He created 992 bookplates. He was engaged in book illustration. In 1997 he published a miniature book "In Memory of Volodymyr Vysotskyi". He participated in numerous international exhibitions (over 100). He lived and worked in Mariupol. He died in 2001.

Preservation:
preserved
Location:
unknown
Provenance:
Transferred by Syvak A. N. Act No. 16 dated 03/07/1990.
Date of record to the inventory book:
02.04.1990
Item description from the inventory book:
Linocut. Bookplate (ex libris). In the foreground on the right — the figure of a standing girl, symbolically merging into a tree. Behind the girl there is a wattle fence with pots. In the center — a Ukrainian hut. In the background - a strip of sky. On the left, from top to bottom: "Shevchenkiana"; in the center at the bottom under the image: "A. Syvak. Author’s mark at right center: SA".