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Fine Art
The Village of Sobachivka
- ID:
- 335
- Inventory number:
- Ж-335 КН-14941
- Type:
- Paintings
- Material:
- canvas
- Techniques:
- oil
- Dimensions:
- 89.5x70 cm
- Author:
- Yurii Sahaidak
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Yurii Ivanovych Sahaidak was a Ukrainian painter and graphic artist. He was born on June 6, 1909 in the village of Polohy (now the city of Polohy, Zaporizhia region). Starting in 1927, he studied at the Kyiv Art Institute, but he did not graduate. He worked as an artist at a mine in Donbas and as a researcher in the museums of Berdyansk and Mariupol. After 1945, Sahaidak was an artist in Dniprobud: he painted paintings dedicated to the restoration of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Station and portraits of restoration participants. In the early 1950s, he moved to the construction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station in Nova Kakhovka. The artist's works are kept in the Zaporizhia Museum of Local Lore. He died in 1985.
- Preservation:
- Complete safety
- Location:
- unknown
- Provenance:
- Purchased from the author. Recorded in the inventory on 07.20. 1948. The act number is unknown.
- Date of record to the inventory book:
- 13.11.1981
Item description from the inventory book:
In the foreground there is a road with a man and a woman in peasant clothes walking along it. In the center on a hill there is a small village with thatched houses and a small church. In the background on the left there is a gob pile. On the right there is the cemetery.