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Azure Spring

ID:
166
Inventory number:
Ж-166 КН-9439
Type:
Paintings
Material:
cardboard
Techniques:
oil
Dimensions:
100x80 cm
Author:
Mykola Maksymenko

Mykola Antonovych Maksymenko was a Soviet Ukrainian painter. He was born on December 31, 1924 in the village of Yaropovychi (now Zhytomyr region). His teachers by profession were I. Hrabar and B. Dekhtiarov. Maksymenko worked in the field of easel painting and was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1960). He participated in exhibitions starting in 1957. His main works include "Gifts of Autumn" (1963), "Tamed Black Grouse" (1964), "Polish Motif" (1966), "Relics", and "Bread" (1967). The artist's works are kept in state and private collections of Ukraine and abroad. Maksymenko lived and worked in Zhytomyr. He died in Zhytomyr on September 11, 2016.

Date of creation:
1973
Preservation:
In the upper right corner there are cardboard tears in two places. The lower right corner is wrinkled.
Location:
unknown
Provenance:
Transferred by the Directorate of Art Exhibitions of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR. Act No. 1718 dated 01/27/1975.
Date of record to the inventory book:
22.09.1981
Item description from the inventory book:
Original. In the foreground there is the hilly bank of a flooded river. The river itself is in the background. On the bank there are spring birches, on the right there are houses. The general color is blue.