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Rural Power Station

ID:
155
Inventory number:
Ж-155 КН-8923
Type:
Paintings
Material:
canvas
Techniques:
oil
Dimensions:
96x51.5 cm
Author:
Oleksii Hrytsai

Oleksii Mykhailovych Hrytsai was a Soviet Russian painter. Born on February 22 (March 7), 1914 in St. Petersburg, he studied in Leningrad in the workshop of S. Seidenberg, then from 1932-1939 at the Repin Institute of Fine Arts under S. Abuhov, I. Brodskyi and V. Yakovliev. He participated in exhibitions starting in 1946. A member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, Hrytsai was a leading landscape painter of the late Soviet period. His works include "Stormy Day in Zhiguli" (1948-1950), "Over the Volga" (1950-1952), "Evening" (1954), "Portrait of a Wife with a Son" (1954), "Leningrad. Summer Garden" (1956), "Snowdrops. Aspen Forest" (1957), "First Greenery. Herd" (1957), "Night Veranda" (1959), "Fog. Calves" (1962), "Spring Time" (1959-1965), "Black Water" (1967), "Spring Twilight. Ravine" (1972-1973), and "Ice Drift" (1984-1985). Hrytsai lived and worked in Moscow and died on December 6, 1998.

Date of creation:
1957
Preservation:
To the right of center there is a 3x1.5 mm canvas breakthrough. Loss of paint layer.
Location:
unknown
Provenance:
A gift from the author to the museum, transferred through the artist Bendryk. The act number is not indicated in the old inventories. The last entry was made on 01.29.1969.
Date of record to the inventory book:
22.09.1981
Item description from the inventory book:
In the foreground is a river, with a strip of land with trees cutting into it. On the right is the dam. To the left, in the background, is a small power plant building, then a house. There are trees against the background of a light sky. Below, on the right - the author's signature and date: 1957.